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...
Main Authors: | Jungyeol Kim, Xingran Chen, Hesam Nikpey, Harvey Rubin, Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti, Saswati Sarkar |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The Royal Society
2022-10-01
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Series: | Royal Society Open Science |
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Online Access: | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.211927 |
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