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Predictions from standard epidemiological models of consequences of segregating and isolating vulnerable people into care facilities

2023-02-14

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<h4>Objectives</h4> Since the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments have imposed policies to reduce contacts between people who are presumed to be particularly vulnerable to dying from respiratory illnesses and the rest of the population. These policies typically address vulnerable individuals concentrated in centralized care facilities and entail limiting social contacts with visitors, staff memb...

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Literature Corpus work: 7666ec50-284d-51ae-a979-0890220a218c
DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.05.23285490

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