Selected article for: "contact tracing and high probability"

Author: Markus Mueller; Peter Derlet; Christopher Mudry; Gabriel Aeppli
Title: Using random testing to manage a safe exit from the COVID-19 lockdown
  • Document date: 2020_4_14
  • ID: loi1vs5y_194
    Snippet: Contact tracing means that once an infected person is detected, people in their environment (i.e., known personal contacts, and those identified using mobile-phone based Apps etc) are notified and tested, and quarantined if detected positive. As a complementary measure to push down the transmission rate, it is definitely useful, and it represents a relatively low cost and targeted measure, since the probability to detect infected people is high. .....
    Document: Contact tracing means that once an infected person is detected, people in their environment (i.e., known personal contacts, and those identified using mobile-phone based Apps etc) are notified and tested, and quarantined if detected positive. As a complementary measure to push down the transmission rate, it is definitely useful, and it represents a relatively low cost and targeted measure, since the probability to detect infected people is high. However, as a sole measure to contain a pandemic contact tracing is impractical (especially at the current high numbers of infected people) and even hazardous.

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