What are Nonpharmaceutical Interventions and how can they help combat a coronavirus pandemic?
Simply put, Nonpharmaceutical Interventions, or NPIs for short, are personal protective measures such as covering coughs and sneezes, community measures such as temporarily closing schools, and environmental measures such as cleaning frequently touched surfaces and objects.
Nonpharmaceutical Interventions (now referred to as NPIs from this point forward) are definitive actions, apart from getting vaccinated and taking medicine, which people and communities can take to help slow the spread of respiratory illnesses like coronavirus or the flu.
The CDC even has a whole website dedicated to NPIs.
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