Selected article for: "contact tracing and successful containment"

Author: Andreas Eilersen; Kim Sneppen
Title: Estimating cost-benefit of quarantine length for Covid-19 mitigation
  • Document date: 2020_4_14
  • ID: b8a78ym6_44
    Snippet: Pandemics such as the one caused by COVID-19 can pose an existential threat to our social and economic life. The disease in itself is serious, and leaves specific epidemic signatures and characteristics that make traditional contact tracing difficult. In particular it is highly infectious, can sometimes be transmitted already 2 days after exposure, and has a large fraction of non-symptomatic cases. As such it is difficult to contain without a sys.....
    Document: Pandemics such as the one caused by COVID-19 can pose an existential threat to our social and economic life. The disease in itself is serious, and leaves specific epidemic signatures and characteristics that make traditional contact tracing difficult. In particular it is highly infectious, can sometimes be transmitted already 2 days after exposure, and has a large fraction of non-symptomatic cases. As such it is difficult to contain without a system-wide lockdown of society. Nonetheless, a successful containment in South Korea used contact tracing. This motivated us to explore a one-step contact tracing/quarantine strategy (1STQ).

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