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Optimizing the COVID-19 Intervention Policy in Scotland and the Case for Testing and Tracing

2020-06-12 infectious diseases Title + abstract only
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AO_SCPLOWBSTRACTC_SCPLOWUnlike other European countries the UK has abandoned widespread testing and tracing of known SARS-CoV-2 carriers in mid-March. The reason given was that the pandemic was out of control and with wide community based spread it would not be possible to contain it by tracing any longer. Like other countries the UK has since relied on a lockdown as the main measure to contain the virus (or more precisely the reproduction number[R] ) at significant economic and social cost. It ...

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