An Examination on the Transmission of COVID-19 and the Effect of Response Strategies: A Comparative Analysis

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作者
Chen, Yi-Tui [1 ]
Yen, Yung-Feng [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Yu, Shih-Heng [4 ]
Su, Emily Chia-Yu [5 ,6 ]
机构
[1] Natl Taipei Univ Nursing & Hlth Sci, Coll Hlth Technol, Dept Hlth Care Management, Taipei 10845, Taiwan
[2] Taipei City Hosp, Yangming Branch, Sect Infect Dis, Taipei 11146, Taiwan
[3] Natl Yang Ming Univ, Inst Publ Hlth, Taipei 11221, Taiwan
[4] Natl United Univ, Dept Business Management, Miaoli 36003, Taiwan
[5] Taipei Med Univ, Coll Med Sci & Technol, Grad Inst Biomed Informat, Taipei 11031, Taiwan
[6] Taipei Med Univ Hosp, Clin Big Data Res Ctr, Taipei 11031, Taiwan
关键词
COVID-19; transmission; mitigation effectiveness; pandemic severity; viral testing; CHINA;
D O I
10.3390/ijerph17165687
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
083001 [环境科学];
摘要
The major purpose of this paper was to examine the transmission of COVID-19 and the associated factors that affect the transmission. A qualitative analysis was conducted by comparing the COVID-19 transmission of six countries: China, Korea, Japan, Italy, the USA, and Brazil. This paper attempted to examine the mitigation effectiveness for the transmission of COVID-19 and the pandemic severity. Time to reach the peak of daily new confirmed cases and the maximum drop rate were used to measure the mitigation effectiveness, while the proportion of confirmed cases to population and the mortality rate were employed to evaluate the pandemic severity. Based on the mitigation effectiveness, the pandemic severity, and the mortality rate, the six sample countries were categorized into four types: high mitigation effectiveness vs. low pandemic severity, middle mitigation effectiveness vs. low pandemic severity, high mitigation effectiveness vs. high pandemic severity, and low mitigation effectiveness vs. high pandemic severity. The results found that Korea and China had relatively higher mitigation effectiveness and lower pandemic severity, while the USA and Brazil had the opposite. This paper suggests that viral testing together with contacts tracing, strict implementation of lockdown, and public cooperation play important roles in achieving a reduction in COVID-19 transmission.
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