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cord-328873-yheimxhu	Kassem, Abdel Meguid	COVID-19: Mitigation or suppression?	2020-04-21		.txt	text/plain	1036	55	48	Suddenly healthcare providers are overwhelmed with problems of diagnosing and screening a virus, managing a disease which has a spectrum that ends in ARDS and death and preventing the spread of infection with still no vaccine available. In their report, using a transmission model founded on an individual-based simulation model for pandemic influenza, the authors investigated the effects of 2 intervention strategies in a UK and a USA context: 1 -Mitigation strategy with the aim of slowing down transmission but not necessarily stopping epidemic spread (reproduction number R not necessarily <1) with protection of more vulnerable groups and reducing the peak healthcare demand, 2 -Suppression strategy in which epidemic spread is reversed to reproduction number (R) <1. The authors concluded that the mitigation strategy, although associated with a herd immunity would result in overwhelming the healthcare system in both the UK and the USA and that it will never be able to completely protect those at risk from severe disease or death and the resulting mortality would therefore still be high.	./cache/cord-328873-yheimxhu.txt	./txt/cord-328873-yheimxhu.txt