Isolation, quarantine, social distancing and community containment: Pivotal role for old-style public health measures in the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2020, Pages

  Wilder Smith, A ^a,b   Freedman, D O ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronavirus; COVID 19; MERS; Pandemic preparedness; SARS; Wuhan

Indexed keywords

CASE FATALITY RATE; CHINA; COMMUNITY CARE; COMMUNITY CONTAINMENT; CONTACT EXAMINATION; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION; NASOPHARYNGEAL ASPIRATION; NONHUMAN; PANDEMIC; QUARANTINE; REVIEW; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; SOCIAL DISTANCE; TRAVEL; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS SHEDDING; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; BETACORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; PATIENT ISOLATION; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PUBLIC HEALTH; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

COVID-19; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2;

BETACORONAVIRUS; CHINA; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; HUMANS; PATIENT ISOLATION; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUARANTINE; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 85081333164     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taaa020     Document Type: Review

References (12)

1. Zhu N, Zhang D, Wang W et al. A novel coronavirus from patients with pneumonia in China, 2019. N Engl J Med 2020; 382:727-3.
2. Wilson ME, Chen LH Travelers give wings to novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). J Travel Med 2020.
3. Nishiura H, Mizumoto K, Ejima K, Zhong Y, Cowling B, Omori R. Incubation period as part of the case definition of severe respiratory illness caused by a novel coronavirus. Euro Surveill 2012; 17.
4. Li Q, Guan X, Wu P et al. Early transmission dynamics in Wuhan, China, of novel coronavirus-infected pneumonia. N Engl J Med 2020.
5. Cetron M, Simone P. Battling 21st-century scourges with a 14th-century toolbox. Emerg Infect Dis 2004; 10:2053-4.
6. Goh KT, Cutter J, Heng BH et al. Epidemiology and control of SARS in Singapore. Ann Acad Med Singapore 2006; 35:301-16.
7. Cetron M, Landwirth J. Public health and ethical considerations in planning for quarantine. Yale J Biol Med 2005; 78: 329-34.
8. Interventions for Community Containment. https://www.cdc.gov/sars/guidance/d-quarantine/app1.html accessed 14 February 2020.
9. Zhong NS, Zeng GQ Pandemic planning in China: applying lessons from severe acute respiratory syndrome. Respirology 2008; 13: S33-5.
10. Cheng PK, Wong DA, Tong LK et al. Viral shedding patterns of coronavirus in patients with probable severe acute respiratory syndrome. Lancet 2004; 363:1699-700.
11. Phan LT, Nguyen TV, Luong QC et al. Importation and human-to-human transmission of a novel coronavirus in Vietnam. N Engl J Med 2020 doi:10.1056/NEJMc2001272.
12. Rothe C. Transmission of 2019-nCoV infection from an asymptomatic contact in Germany. N Engl J Med 2020 doi:10.1056/NE-JMc2001468.