Commentary on Ferguson, et al., “Impact of Non-pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) to Reduce COVID-19 Mortality and Healthcare Demand”

By Stephen G. Eubank, I. Eckstrand, B. Lewis, S. Venkatramanan, M. Marathe, C. Barrett. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2020

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A recent manuscript (Ferguson et al. in Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID-19 mortality and healthcare demand, Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team, London, 2020. https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf) from Imperial College modelers examining ways to mitigate and control the spread of COVID-19 has attracted much attention. In this paper, we will discuss a coarse taxonomy of models and explore the context and significance of the Imperial College and other models in contributing to the analysis of COVID-19.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Modeling and Simulation

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Citations in the corpus

• Optimal Mitigation Policies in a Pandemic: Social Distancing and Working from Home (2020, result): “For the exposure function, we normalize ē + ec + el = 1 and set ec = el = 14 , broadly consistent with the estimates in Ferguson (2020).”
• Non-pharmaceutical interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic: A review (2020, background): “in mental health. 6.3 Modeling Several comments and/or perspectives focus on dierent aspects of modeling COVID-19 dynamics and NPIs. In particular, we nd articles discussing epidemic modeling eorts [28, 264, 288{292], analyzing known and unknowns of transmission dynamics [293{297], presenting opport”
• Affirming Basic Psychological Needs Promotes Mental Well-Being During the COVID-19 Outbreak (2020, background): “Researchers prognosed that epidemics are expected to reoccur in the following years (Ferguson et al., 2020).”