TY - JOUR AU - Park, Sang Woo AU - Sun, Kaiyuan AU - Viboud, Cécile AU - Grenfell, Bryan AU - Dushoff, Jonathan T1 - Potential Role of Social Distancing in Mitigating Spread of Coronavirus Disease, South Korea T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2020 VL - 26 IS - 11 SP - 2697 SN - 1080-6059 AB - In South Korea, the coronavirus disease outbreak peaked at the end of February and subsided in mid-March. We analyzed the likely roles of social distancing in reducing transmission. Our analysis indicated that although transmission might persist in some regions, epidemics can be suppressed with less extreme measures than those taken by China. KW - Coronavirus disease KW - COVID-19 KW - SARS-CoV-2 KW - severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 KW - respiratory diseases KW - zoonoses KW - viruses KW - pneumonia KW - social distancing KW - South Korea DO - 10.3201/eid2611.201099 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/11/20-1099_article ER - End of Reference