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Hospitalisation and mortality impact of shielding during 2020 in England: a transmission modelling evaluation using the OpenSAFELY platform

2025-12-17

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<h4>Background</h4> During the early phase of the Covid-19 pandemic in England, people with pre-existing conditions that put them at severe clinical risk if infected were advised to drastically reduce face-to-face contacts in a policy known as “shielding”. The impact of this policy in preventing COVID-19 hospitalisations and deaths has not been evaluated at the national level using transmission-dynamic modelling....

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Literature Corpus work: b2437e59-cdd0-5696-baf0-05aa107e705a
DOI: 10.64898/2025.12.12.25342168

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