Nature Communications (May 2021)

Controlling COVID-19 via test-trace-quarantine

  • Cliff C. Kerr,
  • Dina Mistry,
  • Robyn M. Stuart,
  • Katherine Rosenfeld,
  • Gregory R. Hart,
  • Rafael C. Núñez,
  • Jamie A. Cohen,
  • Prashanth Selvaraj,
  • Romesh G. Abeysuriya,
  • Michał Jastrzębski,
  • Lauren George,
  • Brittany Hagedorn,
  • Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths,
  • Meaghan Fagalde,
  • Jeffrey Duchin,
  • Michael Famulare,
  • Daniel J. Klein

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23276-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Initial COVID-19 containment in the United States focused on limiting mobility, including school and workplace closures, with enormous societal and economic costs. Here, the authors demonstrate the feasibility of a test-trace-quarantine strategy using an agent-based model and detailed data on the Seattle region.