Use of bio-information and communication technology shortens time to peak at a lower height of the epidemic curve: An alternative to flattening for countries with early COVID-19 outbreaks

• Song Hee Hong ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Song Hee Hong, HyeYoung Kwon

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: songhhong@snu.ac.kr

  Affiliations Institutional and Regulatory Science in Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5188-9837

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• Xinying Jiang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Healthcare and Life Sciences in China and Renaissance Group, Shanghai, China

  Affiliation Institutional and Regulatory Science in Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

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• HyeYoung Kwon

  Contributed equally to this work with: Song Hee Hong, HyeYoung Kwon

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Current address: Department of Public Health, Mokwon University, Daejeon, South Korea

  Affiliation Institutional and Regulatory Science in Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

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