Feasibility of controlling COVID-19 outbreaks by isolation of cases and contacts

• Main Authors: Joel Hellewell, PhD (Author), Sam Abbott, PhD (Author), Amy Gimma, MSc (Author), Nikos I Bosse, BSc (Author), Christopher I Jarvis, PhD (Author), Timothy W Russell, PhD (Author), James D Munday, MSc (Author), Adam J Kucharski, PhD (Author), W John Edmunds, ProfPhD (Author), Sebastian Funk, PhD (Author), Rosalind M Eggo, PhD (Author), Fiona Sun (Author), Stefan Flasche (Author), Billy J Quilty (Author), Nicholas Davies (Author), Yang Liu (Author), Samuel Clifford (Author), Petra Klepac (Author), Mark Jit (Author), Charlie Diamond (Author), Hamish Gibbs (Author), Kevin van Zandvoort (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary: Background: Isolation of cases and contact tracing is used to control outbreaks of infectious diseases, and has been used for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Whether this strategy will achieve control depends on characteristics of both the pathogen and the response. Here we use a mathe...