Contact tracing evaluation for COVID-19 transmission in the different movement levels of a rural college town in the USA

Abstract Contact tracing can play a key role in controlling human-to-human transmission of a highly contagious disease such as COVID-19. We investigate the benefits and costs of contact tracing in the COVID-19 transmission. We estimate two unknown epidemic model parameters (basic reproductive number...

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Main Authors: Sifat A. Moon, Caterina M. Scoglio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-03-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83722-y