{"id":2679,"date":"2020-12-10T09:49:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T17:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2679"},"modified":"2021-02-22T21:46:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T05:46:48","slug":"widespread-testing-case-isolation-and-contact-tracing-may-allow-safe-school-reopening-with-continued-moderate-physical-distancing-a-modeling-analysis-of-king-county-wa-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/10\/widespread-testing-case-isolation-and-contact-tracing-may-allow-safe-school-reopening-with-continued-moderate-physical-distancing-a-modeling-analysis-of-king-county-wa-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Widespread Testing, Case Isolation and Contact Tracing May Allow Safe School Reopening with Continued Moderate Physical Distancing: A Modeling Analysis of King County, WA Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Modeling based on King County, Washington State indicates that returning to a level of 75% of pre-COVID-19 physical interactions between May 15-July 15 was projected to result in 350 daily deaths by early September 2020. Maintaining less than 45% of pre-COVID-19 physical interactions was required to ensure low levels of daily infections and deaths. A combination of increased testing, isolation of symptomatic infections, and contact tracing permitted 60% of pre-COVID-19 physical interactions and allowed opening of schools with &lt;15 daily deaths. [EDITORIAL NOTE: This manuscript was previously summarized as a pre-print on Aug. 16]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bracis et al. (Nov 13, 2020). Widespread Testing, Case Isolation and Contact Tracing May Allow Safe School Reopening with Continued Moderate Physical Distancing: A Modeling Analysis of King County, WA Data. Infectious Disease Modelling. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.idm.2020.11.003\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.idm.2020.11.003<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modeling based on King County, Washington State indicates that returning to a level of 75% of pre-COVID-19 physical interactions between May 15-July 15 was projected to result in 350 daily deaths by early September 2020. Maintaining less than 45% of pre-COVID-19 physical interactions was required to ensure low levels of daily infections and deaths. A&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/10\/widespread-testing-case-isolation-and-contact-tracing-may-allow-safe-school-reopening-with-continued-moderate-physical-distancing-a-modeling-analysis-of-king-county-wa-data\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47,35,68],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-2679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-modeling-prediction","tag-schools","tag-washington","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2680,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions\/2680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2679"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}