The Swiss Cheese Respiratory Virus Defence

Mackay, I. M. (2020). The Swiss Cheese Respiratory Virus Defence. Figshare.

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Dataset

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2020

DOI

10.6084/m9.figshare.13082618

Link

https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13082618

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military_strategic_studies

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Primes

• Defense In Depth
  • In public health, it stacks vaccination, hygiene, ventilation, testing, isolation, and treatment so that no single failure produces an outbreak.

    This sourceAdapts Reason's Swiss-cheese model to respiratory-pandemic defense — multiple imperfect layers (distancing, masks, ventilation, testing/tracing, vaccination) combined so that no single failure produces transmission, the holes only aligning rarely.

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