id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-264248-wqkphg2e Hazem, Y. Hasty Reduction of COVID-19 Lockdown Measures Leads to the Second Wave of Infection 2020-05-26 .txt text/plain 2265 133 55 For the study in hand, this model is used to forecast the infection rate if the lockdown measures are reduced by 25% on the 1st of June 2020 or the 1st of July 2020; hence, the impact of delaying this step is also investigated. 23.20111526 doi: medRxiv preprint in lockdown measures and predicts the evolution of the number of infected cases until the end of 2020 following the assumed conditions. . https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.23.20111526 doi: medRxiv preprint more affected by reopening as they have not fully conquered COVID-19 yet; hence, the hasty reduction of quarantine measures might lead to even higher infection rates that has happened before during the Spanish flu [21; 22] . In conclusion, this study offers a quantifiable prediction of how reducing the lockdown measures shall lead to the second wave of COVID-19 in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, and Canada. ./cache/cord-264248-wqkphg2e.txt ./txt/cord-264248-wqkphg2e.txt