Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Harnessing peak transmission around symptom onset for non-pharmaceutical intervention and containment of the COVID-19 pandemic

  • Liang Tian,
  • Xuefei Li,
  • Fei Qi,
  • Qian-Yuan Tang,
  • Viola Tang,
  • Jiang Liu,
  • Zhiyuan Li,
  • Xingye Cheng,
  • Xuanxuan Li,
  • Yingchen Shi,
  • Haiguang Liu,
  • Lei-Han Tang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21385-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Transmission by pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic viral carriers makes intervention and containment of the COVID-19 extremely challenging. Here, the authors construct an epidemiological model that focuses on transmission around the symptom onset, exploring specific transmission control measures.