Cocooning is essential to relaxing social distancing.

ABSTRACT: As the first wave of COVID-19 recedes, policymakers are contemplating the relaxation of shelter-in-place orders. Using a model capturing high-risk populations and transmission rates estimated from hospitalization data, we find that postponing relaxation will only delay a second wave and cocooning vulnerable populations is needed to prevent overwhelming medical surges.

SUBMITTER: Wang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7273277 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature