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SUBMITTER: Duque D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7443931 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20200729 33
Following the April 16, 2020 release of the <i>Opening Up America Again</i> guidelines for relaxing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) social distancing policies, local leaders are concerned about future pandemic waves and lack robust strategies for tracking and suppressing transmission. Here, we present a strategy for triggering short-term shelter-in-place orders when hospital admissions surpass a threshold. We use stochastic optimization to derive triggers that ensure hospital surges will not ...[more]