Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

May 21, 2020

Institutional, Not Home-Based, Isolation Could Contain the COVID-19 Outbreak.

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  • Using an agent-based model, Dickens et al. found that institution-based isolation (in which confirmed cases are isolated at quarantine facilities) was more effective at reducing household and community transmission than home-based isolation. 

Dickens et al. (Apr 29, 2020). Institutional, Not Home-Based, Isolation Could Contain the COVID-19 Outbreak. Lancet. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31016-3