Pandemic control system component	Feature that distinguishes elimination from mitigation and suppression
Planning, coordination and logistics	Potentially increased to manage intense elimination measures, including dedicated agencies, infrastructure and trained public health workforce
Border management, including exclusion, quarantine	Increased intensity is critical to creating and sustaining elimination
Case, contact and outbreak management, including case isolation and contact tracing and quarantine	Increased intensity is critical to creating and sustaining elimination, including expanded testing capacity and contact tracing systems and workforce
Disease surveillance, including high volume laboratory testing and sentinel surveillance	Increased intensity is critical to creating and sustaining elimination, including strong emphasis on rapid, sensitive case identification and additional methods to confirm elimination
Physical distancing and movement restriction at various levels (up to lockdown)	Ability to introduce early and intensely to suppress community transmissions and outbreaks
Public communication to improve hand washing, cough etiquette, mask wearing, physical distancing	Potentially increased to communicate intense elimination measures
Protecting vulnerable populations	Similar, but duration will be shorter if elimination is successful
Primary care capacity	Adapted to increase testing capacity
Hospital capacity (eg, expansion of intensive care unit and ventilator capacity)	Similar, but duration will be shorter and demand less intense if elimination is successful
Protecting health care workers	Similar, but demand will be less intense if elimination is successful
Research and evaluation	Potentially increased given limited evidence base for elimination measures