{"id":58977,"date":"2020-03-25T11:14:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T11:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alj.com\/?post_type=in-the-news&#038;p=58977"},"modified":"2020-12-22T13:34:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T13:34:22","slug":"medical-news-today-covid-19-suppression-only-viable-strategy-at-the-current-time","status":"publish","type":"in-the-news","link":"https:\/\/alj.com\/en\/in-the-news\/medical-news-today-covid-19-suppression-only-viable-strategy-at-the-current-time\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 suppression &#8216;only viable strategy at the current time&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li class=\"css-dmtxcr\">Research suggests that the best strategy for minimizing the toll of the new coronavirus involves widespread and extended social distancing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Research from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/\">Imperial College London (ICL)<\/a>, in the United Kingdom, has predicted the likely effects on mortality of two different ways of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, which are directly informing U.K. policy, suggest that in the U.K. and United States, a policy of suppressing the outbreak, rather than mitigating it, would significantly reduce demand for critical care beds and the number of people who would die.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/people\/neil.ferguson\">Prof. Neil Ferguson,<\/a> Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/jameel-institute\/\">Abdul Latif Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics<\/a>, at ICL, is the first and corresponding author of the\u00a0<a class=\"content-link css-29oowu\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/media\/imperial-college\/medicine\/sph\/ide\/gida-fellowships\/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new study<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":58986,"template":"","tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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