Article
The Clinical and Economic Value of a Successful Shutdown During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic in Germany
2020-05-19
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Background and aim</h4> A shutdown of businesses enacted during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic can serve different goals, e.g., preventing the intensive care unit (ICU) capacity from being overwhelmed (‘flattening the curve’) or keeping the reproduction number substantially below one (‘squashing the curve’). The aim of this study was to determine the clinical and economic value of a shutdown that is successful in ‘fl...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 4e3f2613-a497-5de2-816e-69dde328823a
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.05.12.20098996
