Impact mitigation strategy

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In epidemiology is mitigation strategy ( English mitigation ) a strategy is tried in after the containment of the disease is not managed the speed of propagation of the disease by different non- pharmaceutical measures of infection control as part of a mass quarantine , such as the closure of businesses, educational institutions and public Slow down facilities, assembly bans, curfews, etc.

Description of the strategy

If the increasing spread of the disease in the population becomes so great that targeted measures to protect the particularly vulnerable groups no longer seem to be possible, then more protective measures are used that aim to reduce the consequences. The aim of the mitigation strategy is to keep negative effects on the population and social life as low as possible. Slowing down the infection rate is intended to avoid overloading the health system as a result of the accumulation of serious illnesses and peaks in illness.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SARS-CoV-2 in Germany and goals of infection protection measures . In: Robert Koch Institute (Ed.): Epidemiologisches Bulletin 7/2020 . February 13, 2020, p. 5–6 ( rki.de [PDF; 2.6 MB ]).
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Kiehl: Infection protection and infection epidemiology. Technical terms - definitions - interpretations. Ed .: Robert Koch Institute, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-89606-258-1 , p. 86, keyword mitigation.
  3. ↑ SARS-CoV-2 in Germany and goals of infection protection measures . In: Robert Koch Institute (Ed.): Epidemiologisches Bulletin 7/2020 . February 13, 2020, p. 5–6 ( rki.de [PDF; 2.6 MB ]).