De-escalation strategies for non-pharmaceutical interventions following infectious disease outbreaks: a rapid review and a proposed dynamic de-escalation framework.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The severity of COVID-19, as well as the speed and scale of its spread, has posed a global challenge. Countries around the world have implemented stringent non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) to control transmission and prevent health systems from being overwhelmed. These NPI have had profound negative social and economic impacts. With the timeline to worldwide vaccine roll-out being uncertain, governments need to consider to what extent they need to implement and how to de-escalate these NPI. This rapid review collates de-escalation criteria reported in the literature to provide a guide to criteria that could be used as part of de-escalation strategies globally.

Methods

We reviewed literature published since 2000 relating to pandemics and infectious disease ou

SUBMITTER: El Bcheraoui C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8444163 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature