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Why do border controls fail to stabilise epidemics?

2025-05-13

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Can border controls and travel restrictions suppress epidemics? This is an important and recurring question for public health policymaking and pandemic preparedness. Although there is a consensus that infections imported from external locations are critical to sustaining local epidemic growth and driving the endemic equilibria of the disease, there remains ongoing debate on the effectiveness of interventions aimed...

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e7609ee6-63f4-534f-b097-8773a491ee5a
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10.1101/2025.05.12.25327440
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