{"id":11051,"date":"2020-03-25T11:14:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T11:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.alj3.clients.lemonhq.io\/in-the-news\/medical-news-today-covid-19-suppression-only-viable-strategy-at-the-current-time\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T07:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T07:21:22","slug":"medical-news-today-covid-19-suppression-only-viable-strategy-at-the-current-time","status":"publish","type":"inthenews","link":"https:\/\/cms.alj3.clients.lemonhq.io\/en\/in-the-news\/medical-news-today-covid-19-suppression-only-viable-strategy-at-the-current-time\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 suppression &#8216;only viable strategy at the current time&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Research suggests that the best strategy for minimizing the toll of the new coronavirus involves widespread and extended social distancing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Research from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/\">Imperial College London (ICL)<\/a>, in the United Kingdom, has predicted the likely effects on mortality of two different ways of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The findings, which are directly informing U.K. policy, suggest that in the U.K. and United States, a policy of suppressing the outbreak, rather than mitigating it, would significantly reduce demand for critical care beds and the number of people who would die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/people\/neil.ferguson\">Prof. Neil Ferguson,<\/a> Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/jameel-institute\/\">Abdul Latif Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics<\/a>, at ICL, is the first and corresponding author of the&nbsp;<a class=\"content-link css-29oowu\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/media\/imperial-college\/medicine\/sph\/ide\/gida-fellowships\/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new study<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11053,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-11051","inthenews","type-inthenews","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>COVID-19 suppression &#039;only viable strategy at the current time&#039; - Abdul Latif Jameel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COVID-19 suppression &#039;only viable strategy at the current time&#039; - Abdul Latif Jameel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Research from the Imperial College London (ICL), in the United Kingdom, has predicted the likely effects on mortality of two different ways of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. 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