June 1, 2020

Using Real-World Contact Networks to Quantify the Effectiveness of Digital Contact Tracing and Isolation Strategies for Covid-19 Pandemic

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Modeling and Prediction

• [pre-print, not peer reviewed] Cencetti et al. modeled contact tracing strategies and found that imposing quarantine on contacts with longer exposures at a shorter distance minimized the social cost of quarantine. They found that additional measures needed to be implemented with isolation and tracing to control the outbreak, and that a high level of app adoption was crucial to effectiveness of digital contact tracing.  

Cencetti et al. (May 30, 2020). Using Real-World Contact Networks to Quantify the Effectiveness of Digital Contact Tracing and Isolation Strategies for Covid-19 Pandemic. Pre-print downloaded June 1 from https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.29.20115915