Feasibility of controlling COVID-19 outbreaks by isolation of cases and contacts

Feasibility of controlling COVID-19 outbreaks by isolation of cases and contacts

Summary: Background: Isolation of cases and contact tracing is used to control outbreaks of infectious diseases, and has been used for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Whether this strategy will achieve control depends on characteristics of both the pathogen and the response. Here we use a math...

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Main Authors: Joel Hellewell, PhD, Sam Abbott, PhD, Amy Gimma, MSc, Nikos I Bosse, BSc, Christopher I Jarvis, PhD, Timothy W Russell, PhD, James D Munday, MSc, Adam J Kucharski, PhD, W John Edmunds, ProfPhD, Sebastian Funk, PhD, Rosalind M Eggo, PhD, Fiona Sun, Stefan Flasche, Billy J Quilty, Nicholas Davies, Yang Liu, Samuel Clifford, Petra Klepac, Mark Jit, Charlie Diamond, Hamish Gibbs, Kevin van Zandvoort
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-04-01
Series:The Lancet Global Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X20300747

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