Containing pandemics through targeted testing of households.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While invasive social distancing measures have proven efficient to control the spread of pandemics failing wide-scale deployment of vaccines, they carry vast societal costs. The development of a diagnostic methodology for identifying COVID-19 infection through simple testing was a reality only a few weeks after the novel virus was officially announced. Thus, we were interested in exploring the ability of regular testing of non-symptomatic people to reduce cases and thereby offer a non-pharmaceutical tool for controlling the spread of a pandemic.

Methods

We developed a data-driven individual-based epidemiological network model in order to investigate epidemic countermeasures. This models is based on high-resolution demographic data for each municipality in Norway,

SUBMITTER: Voigt A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8189703 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature