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Bidirectional contact tracing could dramatically improve COVID-19 control

Contact tracing is critical to controlling COVID-19, but most protocols only “forward-trace” to notify people who were recently exposed. Using a stochastic branching-process model, we find that “bidirectional” tracing to identify infector individuals and their other infectees robustly improves outbr...

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Autores principales: Bradshaw, William J., Alley, Ethan C., Huggins, Jonathan H., Lloyd, Alun L., Esvelt, Kevin M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7801385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33431829
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20325-7