The quarantine hospital strategy as a way to reduce both community and nosocomial transmission in the context of a COVID-like epidemic

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Nosocomial infections of both patients and healthcare workers (HCWs) in hospitals may play an important part in the overall dynamics of a viral pandemic, as evidenced by the recent COVID-19 experience. A strategy to control this risk consists in dedicating some hospitals to the care of infected patients only, with HCWs alternating between shifts of continuous stay within these hospitals and periods of isolation. T...

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• Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
• Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
• Antibiotic Use and Resistance
• COVID-19 epidemiological studies
• Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
• Infection Control and Ventilation
• Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models
• Zoonotic diseases and public health

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Literature Corpus work

98009a9e-c6a3-5bbe-aa94-b2a4c8f4dd4a

DOI

10.1101/2025.01.13.25320454