Bidirectional contact tracing could dramatically improve COVID-19 control
Contact tracing is critical to controlling COVID-19, but most protocols only “forward-trace” to notify people who were recently exposed. Using a stochastic branching-process model, we find that “bidirectional” tracing to identify infector individuals and their other infectees robustly improves outbr...
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Language: | English |
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
2021
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129614 |