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Key Considerations: Quarantine in the Context of COVID-19 | NLM

Disaster Information Management Research Center | NLM

Disaster Information and Emergency Response

02/01/2020 12:00 AM EST


Source: Social Science in Humanitarian Action. Published: 2/2020. This six-page brief sets out practical considerations relating to the design and impact of measures that restrict human movement patterns in the context of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease). These measures include quarantine, in which individuals who have been exposed to a communicable disease are separated from others for the duration of the disease’s incubation period; isolation, in which individuals with a communicable disease are separated from others for as long as they are infectious; and social distancing, in which individuals or large groups of people are restricted from gathering. (PDF)

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