October 12, 2020

An Innovative Non-Pharmaceutical Intervention to Mitigate SARS-CoV02 Spread Probability Sampling to Identify and Isolate Asymptomatic Cases

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Modeling and Prediction

Keywords (Tags): candidate, non-pharm interventions, report, Seattle, summarize

• [Pre-print, not peer reviewed] Results from one modelling study suggest that a Sampling-Testing-Quarantine strategy for identifying and isolating asymptomatic individuals with COVID-19 may help slow the spread of the epidemic without school or work shutdowns. An agent-based model was designed to simulate the COVID-19 epidemic in Seattle, in order to test the strategy. The strategy involves using probability sampling from the general population and identifying and isolating individuals who test positive, along with members of their household who have a high probability of developing an asymptomatic infection.

Williams et al. (Oct 12, 2020). An Innovative Non-Pharmaceutical Intervention to Mitigate SARS-CoV02 Spread Probability Sampling to Identify and Isolate Asymptomatic Cases. Pre-print downloaded Oct 12 https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.07.20208686