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Successful mitigation delays and decreases the epidemic peak, known as "flattening the [[epidemic curve]]".<ref name="Lancet2020Flatten" /> This decreases the risk of overwhelming health services and provides more time for developing vaccines and treatments.<ref name="Lancet2020Flatten" /> Individual behaviour changed in many jurisdictions. Many people worked from home instead of at their traditional workplaces.<ref>{{#invoke:cite web || author = US Census Bureau |title=Those Who Switched to Telework Have Higher Income, Education and Better Health |url=https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/03/working-from-home-during-the-pandemic.html |website=Census.gov |access-date=25 December 2021}}</ref> ==== Non-pharmaceutical interventions ==== [[File:04.02 總統視察「中央流行疫情指揮中心」 49726568957 66543b616e o.jpg|thumb|The CDC and WHO advise that masks (such as worn here by Taiwanese President [[Tsai Ing-wen]]) reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2.]] [[Non-pharmaceutical intervention]]s that may reduce spread include personal actions such as wearing [[Face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic|face masks]], self-quarantine, and [[Hand washing|hand hygiene]]; community measures aimed at reducing interpersonal contacts such as closing workplaces and schools and cancelling large gatherings; community engagement to encourage acceptance and participation in such interventions; as well as environmental measures such as surface cleaning.<ref name="community mitigation" /> ==== Other measures ==== More drastic actions, such as quarantining entire populations and strict travel bans have been attempted in various jurisdictions.<ref name="RwmYm" /> The [[Chinese government response to COVID-19|Chinese]] and [[COVID-19 pandemic in Australia#Responses|Australian government approaches]] have included many lockdowns and are widely considered the most strict. The [[New Zealand government response to the COVID-19 pandemic|New Zealand government response]] included the most severe travel restrictions. As part of its [[K-Quarantine]] program, South Korea introduced mass screening and localised quarantines, and issued alerts on the movements of infected individuals. The [[COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore#Government response|Singaporean government's response]] included so-called "[[2020 Singapore circuit breaker measures|circuit breaker lockdowns]]" and financial support for those affected while also imposing large fines for those who broke quarantine.<ref name="shZdf" /> ==== Contact tracing ==== {{See also|Use and development of software for COVID-19 pandemic mitigation|Public health mitigation of COVID-19#Information technology}} [[Contact tracing]] attempts to identify recent contacts of newly infected individuals, and to screen them for infection; the traditional approach is to request a list of contacts from infectees, and then telephone or visit the contacts.<ref name="web" /> Contact tracing was widely used during the [[Western African Ebola virus epidemic]] in 2014.<ref>{{#invoke:cite journal ||last1=Webb |first1=Glenn |last2=Browne |first2=Cameron |last3=Huo |first3=Xi |last4=Seydi |first4=Ousmane |last5=Seydi |first5=Moussa |last6=Magal |first6=Pierre |title=A model of the 2014 ebola epidemic in west Africa with contact tracing |journal=PLOS Currents |date=30 January 2015 |volume=7 |pages=ecurrents.outbreaks.846b2a31ef37018b7d1126a9c8adf22a |doi=10.1371/currents.outbreaks.846b2a31ef37018b7d1126a9c8adf22a |doi-broken-date=31 January 2024 |pmid=25685636 |pmc=4323422 |issn=2157-3999 |doi-access=free}}</ref> Another approach is to collect location data from mobile devices to identify those who have come in significant contact with infectees, which prompted privacy concerns.<ref name="IngramWard20200407">{{#invoke:cite web||date=7 April 2020|title=Behind the global efforts to make a privacy-first coronavirus tracking app|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/behind-global-efforts-make-privacy-first-coronavirus-tracking-app-n1177871|access-date=10 April 2020|publisher=NBC News|vauthors=Ingram D, Ward J}}</ref> On 10 April 2020, Google and [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] announced an initiative for privacy-preserving contact tracing.<ref name="0DF25">{{#invoke:cite web || url=https://social.techcrunch.com/2020/04/10/apple-and-google-are-launching-a-joint-covid-19-tracing-tool/ |title=Apple and Google are launching a joint COVID-19 tracing tool for iOS and Android |website=TechCrunch |date=10 April 2020 |access-date=10 April 2020}}</ref><ref name="20200410apple">{{#invoke:cite web || url=https://www.apple.com/covid19/contacttracing/ |title=Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing |date=10 April 2020 |website=Apple }}</ref> In Europe and in the US, [[Palantir Technologies]] initially provided COVID-19 tracking services.<ref name="0k3hR">{{#invoke:cite news ||title=Palantir provides COVID-19 tracking software to CDC and NHS, pitches European health agencies |url=https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/01/palantir-coronavirus-cdc-nhs-gotham-foundry/ |access-date=22 April 2020 |work=TechCrunch}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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