Quarantine and testing strategies in contact tracing for SARS-CoV-2: a modelling study

Quarantine and testing strategies in contact tracing for SARS-CoV-2: a modelling study

Summary: Background: In most countries, contacts of confirmed COVID-19 cases are asked to quarantine for 14 days after exposure to limit asymptomatic onward transmission. While theoretically effective, this policy places a substantial social and economic burden on both the individual and wider soci...

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Main Authors: Billy J Quilty, MSc, Samuel Clifford, PhD, Joel Hellewell, PhD, Timothy W Russell, PhD, Adam J Kucharski, PhD, Stefan Flasche, ProfPhD, W John Edmunds, ProfPhD, Katherine E Atkins, Anna M Foss, Naomi R Waterlow, Kaja Abbas, Rachel Lowe, Carl A B Pearson, Sebastian Funk, Alicia Rosello, Gwenan M Knight, Nikos I Bosse, Simon R Procter, Georgia R Gore-Langton, Alicia Showering, James D Munday, Katharine Sherratt, Thibaut Jombart, Emily S Nightingale, Yang Liu, Christopher I Jarvis, Graham Medley, Oliver Brady, Hamish P Gibbs, David Simons, Jack Williams, Damien C Tully, Stefan Flasche, Sophie R Meakin, Kevin Zandvoort, Fiona Y Sun, Mark Jit, Petra Klepac, Matthew Quaife, Rosalind M Eggo, Frank G Sandmann, Akira Endo, Kiesha Prem, Sam Abbott, Rosanna Barnard, Yung-Wai D Chan, Megan Auzenbergs, Amy Gimma, C Julian Villabona-Arenas, Nicholas G Davies
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-03-01
Series:The Lancet Public Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S246826672030308X

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