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.
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 |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2021-01-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20742-8 |
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