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Feasibility of controlling COVID-19 outbreaks by isolation of cases and contacts

BACKGROUND: Isolation of cases and contact tracing is used to control outbreaks of infectious diseases, and has been used for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Whether this strategy will achieve control depends on characteristics of both the pathogen and the response. Here we use a mathematical m...

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Autores principales: Hellewell, Joel, Abbott, Sam, Gimma, Amy, Bosse, Nikos I, Jarvis, Christopher I, Russell, Timothy W, Munday, James D, Kucharski, Adam J, Edmunds, W John, Funk, Sebastian, Eggo, Rosalind M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7097845/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32119825
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30074-7