Tracing and testing multiple generations of contacts to COVID-19 cases: cost–benefit trade-offs

Tracing and testing multiple generations of contacts to COVID-19 cases: cost–benefit trade-offs

Traditional contact tracing tests the direct contacts of those who test positive. But, by the time an infected individual is tested, the infection starting from the person may have infected a chain of individuals. Hence, why should the testing stop at direct contacts, and not test secondary, tertiar...

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Main Authors: Jungyeol Kim, Xingran Chen, Hesam Nikpey, Harvey Rubin, Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti, Saswati Sarkar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2022-10-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
Subjects:
disease dynamics
contact tracing
cost–benefit trade-off
COVID-19
large-scale contact networks
Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.211927

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