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Volume 26, Number 10—October 2020
Research

Impact of Social Distancing Measures on Coronavirus Disease Healthcare Demand, Central Texas, USA

Xutong Wang1, Remy F. Pasco1, Zhanwei Du1, Michaela Petty, Spencer J. Fox, Alison P. Galvani, Michael Pignone, S. Claiborne Johnston, and Lauren Ancel MeyersComments to Author 
Author affiliations: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA (X. Wang, R.F Pasco, Z. Du, M. Petty, S.J. Fox, L. Ancel Meyers); Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (A.P. Galvani); The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, Austin (M. Pignone, S. Claiborne Johnston); Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA (L. Ancel Meyers)

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Table 1

Estimated cumulative COVID-19 cases, healthcare requirements, and deaths, Austin–Round Rock, metropolitan statistical area, Texas, USA, March 1–August 17, 2020*

Outcome No measures School closure School closure 
and 50% social distancing School closure and 75% social distancing School closure and 90% social distancing
Cases 1,139,633 
(1,092,754–1,173,408) 1,098,755 
(1,016,794–1,143,147) 596,304 
(215,897–854,094) 34,232 
(2,871–244,959) 2,013 
(642–11,358)
Hospitalizations 79,120 
(75,373–82,608) 76,698 
(70,091–80,602) 36,534 
(11,474–57,912) 1,889 
(159–13,512) 125 
(32–660)
ICU 13,312 (12,673–13,890) 12,897 (11,786–13,540) 6141 (1,929–9,736) 318 (27–2,273) 21 (5–111)
Ventilators 6,274 (5,973–6,545) 6,077 (5,554–6,377) 2,893 (909–4,587) 150 (13–1,071) 10 (3–53)
Deaths 9,646 (9,031–10,206) 9,324 (8,481–9,954) 3,698 (995–6,751) 176 (13–1,315) 13 (1–70)

*Values are medians (95% prediction intervals) across 100 stochastic simulations based on parameters in Table 1. COVID-19, coronavirus disease; ICU, intensive care unit.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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