Individual quarantine versus active monitoring of contacts for the mitigation of COVID-19: a modelling study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Voluntary individual quarantine and voluntary active monitoring of contacts are core disease control strategies for emerging infectious diseases such as COVID-19. Given the impact of quarantine on resources and individual liberty, it is vital to assess under what conditions individual quarantine can more effectively control COVID-19 than active monitoring. As an epidemic grows, it is also important to consider when these interventions are no longer feasible and broader mitigation measures must be implemented.

Methods

To estimate the comparative efficacy of individual quarantine and active monitoring of contacts to control severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), we fit a stochastic branching model to reported parameters for the dynamics of the

SUBMITTER: Peak CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7239635 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature