Demand for longer quarantine period among common and uncommon COVID-19 infections: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As one of the non-pharmacological interventions to control the transmission of COVID-19, determining the quarantine duration is mainly based on the accurate estimates of the incubation period. However, patients with coarse information of the exposure date, as well as infections other than the symptomatic, were not taken into account in previously published studies. Thus, by using the statistical method dealing with the interval-censored data, we assessed the quarantine duration for both common and uncommon infections. The latter type includes the presymptomatic, the asymptomatic and the recurrent test positive patients.

Methods

As of 10 December 2020, information on cases have been collected from the English and Chinese databases, including Pubmed, Google scholar,

SUBMITTER: Li ZY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8072089 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature