Quantitative modeling and analysis show country-specific quarantine measures can circumvent COVID19 infection spread post lockdown

2020-05-26 epidemiology Title + abstract only

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In response to the COVID19 outbreak many countries have implemented lockdown to ensure social distancing. However, long lockdowns globally affected the livelihood of millions of people resulting in subsequent unlocks that started a second wave of infection in multiple countries. Unlocking of the economies critically imposes extra burden on testing and quarantine of the infected people to keep the reproduction number (R0) <1. This, as we demonstrate, requires optimizing a cost-benefit trade-off b...

Quantitative modeling and analysis show country-specific quarantine measures can circumvent COVID19 infection spread post lockdown

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