{"id":474,"date":"2020-08-24T10:22:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T17:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=474"},"modified":"2020-08-25T10:23:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T17:23:48","slug":"quarantine-and-testing-strategies-in-contact-tracing-for-sars-cov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/24\/quarantine-and-testing-strategies-in-contact-tracing-for-sars-cov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarantine and Testing Strategies in Contact Tracing for SARS-CoV-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>[pre-print, not peer-reviewed] Modeling by Quilty et al. found that for known contacts of COVID-19 cases, a quarantine period of at least ten days, combined with a PCR test on day nine, may yield similar results to a 14-day quarantine period in terms of averted transmission potential from secondary cases. Fourteen days of quarantine averted approximately 84% of transmission, while ten days and a test on day 9 averted approximately 81%. However, the model assumes a relatively short period (less than 4.5 days, on average) from the index case\u2019s symptom onset to tracing of secondary contacts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Quilty et al. (Aug 24, 2020). Quarantine and Testing Strategies in Contact Tracing for SARS-CoV-2. Pre-print downloaded August 21 from <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.08.21.20177808\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.08.21.20177808<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[pre-print, not peer-reviewed] Modeling by Quilty et al. found that for known contacts of COVID-19 cases, a quarantine period of at least ten days, combined with a PCR test on day nine, may yield similar results to a 14-day quarantine period in terms of averted transmission potential from secondary cases. Fourteen days of quarantine averted&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/24\/quarantine-and-testing-strategies-in-contact-tracing-for-sars-cov-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47,37],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-modeling-prediction","tag-non-pharm-interventions","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}