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Course: Association Between the Relaxation of Public Health and Social Measures and Transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant in South Korea

CME Credits: 1.00

Released: 2022-08-12

It is essential to effectively manage the timing of relaxing public health and social measures (PHSMs) during a pandemic while considering the available capacity of the health system. South Korea used a very successful SARS-CoV-2 infection mitigation strategy throughout the COVID-19 pandemic during 2020-2021 and began to relax PHSMs during the early phase of the Omicron variant (lineage BA.1) wave (mid-January 2022). On March 16, 2022, the daily number of COVID-19 cases was approximately 600,000, the largest increase in the number of new daily cases worldwide since the pandemic began. This study assessed the association of changing PHSMs with the transmissibility of the Omicron variant in South Korea.


Educational Objective
To identify the key insights or developments described in this article


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