Synergistic interventions to control COVID-19: Mass testing and isolation mitigates reliance on distancing

Synergistic interventions to control COVID-19: Mass testing and isolation mitigates reliance on distancing

Stay-at-home orders and shutdowns of non-essential businesses are powerful, but socially costly, tools to control the pandemic spread of SARS-CoV-2. Mass testing strategies, which rely on widely administered frequent and rapid diagnostics to identify and isolate infected individuals, could be a pote...

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Main Authors: Bjørnstad, O.N (Author), Bogich, T.L (Author), Borchering, R.K (Author), Ferrari, M.J (Author), Howerton, E. (Author), Jewell, C.P (Author), Nichols, J.D (Author), Probert, W.J.M (Author), Runge, M.C (Author), Shea, K. (Author), Tildesley, M.J (Author), Viboud, C. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2021
Subjects:
Article
asymptomatic disease
biological model
biology
communicable disease control
Communicable Disease Control
Computational Biology
computer simulation
Computer Simulation
coronavirus disease 2019
cost benefit analysis
Cost-Benefit Analysis
COVID-19
COVID-19 Testing
death
disease control
disease transmission
epidemiology
health care policy
hospitalization
human
Humans
immunity
isolation
lockdown
mass screening
Models, Biological
pandemic
Pandemics
Physical Distancing
prevention and control
procedures
public health
SARS-CoV-2
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
social distancing
virus transmission
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