Estimation of the Effectiveness of a Tighter, Reinforced Quarantine for the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak: Analysis of the Third Wave in South Koreaopen access
- Authors
- Park, Marn Joon; Choi, Ji Ho; Cho, Jae Hoon
- Issue Date
- Mar-2023
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Keywords
- COVID-19; coronavirus disease 2019; SARS-CoV-2; quarantine; Republic of Korea; South Korea; ARIMA
- Citation
- Journal of Personalized Medicine, v.13, no.3
- Journal Title
- Journal of Personalized Medicine
- Volume
- 13
- Number
- 3
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/sch/handle/2021.sw.sch/22546
- DOI
- 10.3390/jpm13030402
- ISSN
- 2075-4426
2075-4426
- Abstract
- It has been claimed that a tighter, reinforced quarantine strategy was advocated to reduce the transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) during major outbreaks; however, there have been no prior quantitative studies examining the effectiveness and duration of such a reinforced quarantine. Consequently, the purpose of this research was to determine the impact of a "tighter, reinforced" quarantine during the third COVID-19 breakout wave in South Korea, which occurred between late 2020 and early 2021. The efficacy of the quarantine was determined by comparing the number of newly diagnosed COVID-19 patients between the "prediction model" and "actual observed data." Two prediction models were developed using the autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA; 1, 0, 0) model. The effect of a "tighter, reinforced" quarantine, which would show as an immediate drop in the number of new cases, predicted its efficacy by lowering the number of new cases by 20,400. In addition, the efficacy of the quarantine lasted up to more than three months. The findings of our investigation confirmed the beneficial influence of "tighter, controlled" quarantine laws during a widespread COVID-19 epidemic. During an epidemic, when the population has not yet developed immunity to respiratory viral diseases, our study may be evidence for implementing stricter quarantine restrictions in order to reduce the number of new cases.
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