Cost-benefit of limited isolation and testing in COVID-19 mitigation.

ABSTRACT: The international community has been put in an unprecedented situation by the COVID-19 pandemic. Creating models to describe and quantify alternative mitigation strategies becomes increasingly urgent. In this study, we propose an agent-based model of disease transmission in a society divided into closely connected families, workplaces, and social groups. This allows us to discuss mitigation strategies, including targeted quarantine measures. We find that workplace and more diffuse social contacts are roughly equally important to disease spread, and that an effective lockdown must target both. We examine the cost-benefit of replacing a lockdown with tracing and quarantining contacts of the infected. Quarantine can contribute substantially to mitigation, even if it has short duration and is

SUBMITTER: Eilersen A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7596701 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature