Critical Role of Nosocomial Transmission in the Toronto SARS Outbreak
Open Access
- 1 March 2004
- journal article
- Published by American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering
- Vol. 1 (1) , 1-13
- https://doi.org/10.3934/mbe.2004.1.1
Abstract
We develop a compartmental mathematical model to address the role of hospitals in severe acute respiratory syndrome ( SARS ) transmission dynamics, which partially explains the heterogeneity of the epidemic. Comparison of the effects of two major policies, strict hospital infection control procedures and community-wide quarantine measures, implemented in Toronto two weeks into the initial outbreak, shows that their combination is the key to short-term containment and that quarantine is the key to long-term containment.Keywords
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