TY - JOUR
AU - Quilty, Billy J.
AU - Clifford, Samuel
AU - Hellewell, Joel
AU - Russell, Timothy W.
AU - Kucharski, Adam J.
AU - Flasche, Stefan
AU - Edmunds, W. John
AU - CMMID COVID-19 Working Group
PY - 2021
DA - March
TI - Quarantine and testing strategies in contact tracing for SARS-CoV-2: a modelling study
JO - The Lancet Public Health
EP - e183
VL - 6
IS - 3
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30308-X
AB - 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 society, which might result in low adherence and reduced policy effectiveness. We aimed to assess the merit of testing contacts to avert onward transmission and to replace or reduce the length of quarantine for uninfected contacts.
PB - Elsevier
UR - https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/b58cce2a-1fdd-438e-b2f1-562a7aced3aa
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
ER