Epidemic management and control through risk-dependent individual contact interventions.

ABSTRACT: Testing, contact tracing, and isolation (TTI) is an epidemic management and control approach that is difficult to implement at scale because it relies on manual tracing of contacts. Exposure notification apps have been developed to digitally scale up TTI by harnessing contact data obtained from mobile devices; however, exposure notification apps provide users only with limited binary information when they have been directly exposed to a known infection source. Here we demonstrate a scalable improvement to TTI and exposure notification apps that uses data assimilation (DA) on a contact network. Network DA exploits diverse sources of health data together with the proximity data from mobile devices that exposure notification apps rely upon. It provides users with continuously assessed individ

SUBMITTER: Schneider T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9223336 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature