Taiwan's Successful COVID-19 Mitigation and Containment Strategy : Achieving Quasi Population Immunity

The authors describe Taiwan's successful strategy in achieving control of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) without economic shutdown, despite the prediction that millions of infections would be imported from travelers returning from Chinese New Year celebrations in Mainland China in early 2020. As of September 2, 2020, Taiwan reports 489 cases, 7 deaths, and no locally acquired COVID-19 cases for the last 135 days (greater than 4 months) in its population of over 23.8 million people. Taiwan created quasi population immunity through the application of established public health principles. These non-pharmaceutical interventions, including public masking and social distancing, coupled with early and aggressive identification, isolation, and contact tracing to inhibit local transmission, represent a model for optimal public health management of COVID-19 and future emerging infectious diseases.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:16

Enthalten in:

Disaster medicine and public health preparedness - 16(2022), 2 vom: 11. Apr., Seite 434-437

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chien, Li-Chien [VerfasserIn]
Beÿ, Christian K [VerfasserIn]
Koenig, Kristi L [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Emerging infectious disease
Journal Article
Non-pharmaceutical interventions
SARS-CoV-2
Taiwan

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Date Completed 14.06.2022

Date Revised 17.08.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1017/dmp.2020.357

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM314845550