Optimal COVID-19 quarantine and testing strategies

Optimal COVID-19 quarantine and testing strategies

Safely reducing the necessary duration of quarantine for COVID-19 could lessen the economic impacts of the pandemic. Here, the authors demonstrate that testing on exit from quarantine is more effective than testing on entry, and can enable quarantine to be reduced from fourteen to seven days.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chad R. Wells, Jeffrey P. Townsend, Abhishek Pandey, Seyed M. Moghadas, Gary Krieger, Burton Singer, Robert H. McDonald, Meagan C. Fitzpatrick, Alison P. Galvani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20742-8

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20742-8

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