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Suppress, and not just flatten:Strategies for Rapid Suppression of COVID19 transmission in Small World Communities

2020-05-05 epidemiology Title + abstract only
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Many countries have introduced Lockdowns to contain the COVID19 epidemic. Lockdowns, though an effective policy for containment, imposes a heavy cost on the economy as it enforces extreme social distancing measures on the whole population. The objective of this note is to study alternatives to Lockdown which are either more targeted or allows partial opening of the economy. Cities are often spatially organized into wards. We introduce Multi-lattice small world (MLSW) network as a model of a city...

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