Replacing quarantine of COVID-19 contacts with periodic testing is also effective in mitigating the risk of transmission
Abstract The quarantine of identified close contacts has been vital to reducing transmission rates and averting secondary infection risk before symptom onset and by asymptomatic cases. The effectiveness of this contact tracing strategy to mitigate transmission is sensitive to the adherence to quaran...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2022-03-01
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Series: | Scientific Reports |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07447-2 |