De-escalation strategies for non-pharmaceutical interventions following infectious disease outbreaks: a rapid review and a proposed dynamic de-escalation framework

• Main Authors: Charbel El Bcheraoui (Author), Sophie Alice Müller (Author), Eleanor C Vaughan (Author), Andreas Jansen (Author), Robert Cook (Author), Johanna Hanefeld (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The severity of COVID-19, as well as the speed and scale of its spread, has posed a global challenge. Countries around the world have implemented stringent non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) to control transmission and prevent health systems from being overwhelmed. These NPI...