Bidirectional contact tracing could dramatically improve COVID-19 control

Contact tracing is critical to controlling COVID-19, but most protocols only “forward-trace” to notify people who were recently exposed. Using a stochastic branching-process model, the authors show that “bidirectional” tracing to identify infector individuals and their other infectees robustly impro...

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Main Authors: William J. Bradshaw, Ethan C. Alley, Jonathan H. Huggins, Alun L. Lloyd, Kevin M. Esvelt
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/57bacde72cf14549a38abb0105ac3148
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