COVID-19: delay, mitigate, and communicate
Published Online March 13, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30128-4
On March 11, 2020, WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemicand has called for governments to take “urgent and aggressive action” to change the course of the outbreak. As of March 12, 2020, the USA has suspended all travel from 26 European countries, and Italy is the latest country to enforce widespread lockdown measures to curb the spread of the virus. Robust plans and policies to avoid the disease trajectories seen in the worst-hit countries are urgentlyneeded. These responses must be proportionate to each country’s situation and communicated in a clear and balanced way to avoid spreading fear and panic.
