Is a community-based strategy more effective, in
comparison to a hospital-based one, to limit SARS-CoV-2 infections and
optimize healthcare resources during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Community-based strategies are effective at controlling the transmission
of SARS-CoV-2. Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and
New Zealand have all controlled effectively. Their cumulative COVID-19
mortality is >100-fold less than that in Belgium, France,
Italy, Spain and the UK, countries which have had difficulties to
adequately control the pandemic.260-262 It is
important to implement measures to contain the spread of the virus, such
as developing models to predict SARS-CoV-2-related
mortality.263