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Public Health Intervention Framework for Reviving Economy Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic (1): A Concept
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: Received: 8 April 2020 / Approved: 16 April 2020 / Online: 16 April 2020 (12:34:43 CEST)
How to cite: Wu, J.; Ping, Z. Public Health Intervention Framework for Reviving Economy Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic (1): A Concept. Preprints 2020, 2020040270 Wu, J.; Ping, Z. Public Health Intervention Framework for Reviving Economy Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic (1): A Concept. Preprints 2020, 2020040270
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has great adverse impacts on personal life, the U.S. economy, and the world economy. Freezing all human activities is not a sustainable measure. Thus we want to develop a public intervention framework that allows people to resume personal and economic activities. In this article, we examined transmission routes, disease severity, personal vulnerability, available treatments, and person-person interactions to establish a general public intervention framework. We divide people into risk groups, non-risk group and group that may serve as viral transmitters, explore interactions between individual persons within each group and between different groups, and propose interaction behavior modifications to mitigate viral exposures. For the non-risk groups, we identified preventive measures that can help them avoid the most serious exposures and infections that pose higher death risks. The invention measures for the vulnerable groups include prior-exposure measures, heightened protective measures, interaction behavior changes, post-exposure remedial measures, and multiple factors treatments to reduce death and disability risks. The multiple interventions and two-ways defensive behavior modifications are expected to result in reduced rate of detectable infections and lowered disease severity for the vulnerable groups. In this framework, most human activities and economic activities can continue as normal. With time passing, the population acquires population immunity against the COVID-19 virus. Implementation of this intervention framework requires considerable resources and governmental effects while the multiple factors treatment protocol requires the support of health care professionals.
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Keywords
coronavirus; COVID-19; public health intervention; revive economy; disease severity; transmission route; influenza; ventilation; work environment
Subject
Business, Economics and Management, Business and Management
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