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