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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Main Authors: Patricio Foncea, Susana Mondschein, Marcelo Olivares
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-03-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07447-2