Author: Corey M Peak; Lauren M Childs; Yonatan H Grad; Caroline O Buckee
Title: Containing Emerging Epidemics: a Quantitative Comparison of Quarantine and Symptom Monitoring Document date: 2016_8_31
ID: 2j4z5rp8_35
Snippet: Our results suggest that symptom monitoring could effectively control an outbreak of a new Ebola-like disease, even when infectiousness precedes symptoms and interventions are not perfectly implemented. Because perfect interventions are not always necessary, these results support the conclusion of Cetron et al. (21) that the optimal containment strategy may allow "partial or leaky quarantine" in order to increase the fraction of contacts who part.....
Document: Our results suggest that symptom monitoring could effectively control an outbreak of a new Ebola-like disease, even when infectiousness precedes symptoms and interventions are not perfectly implemented. Because perfect interventions are not always necessary, these results support the conclusion of Cetron et al. (21) that the optimal containment strategy may allow "partial or leaky quarantine" in order to increase the fraction of contacts who participate.
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