{"id":5042,"date":"2020-03-13T16:04:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T23:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5042"},"modified":"2021-02-24T16:05:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T00:05:49","slug":"effectiveness-of-isolation-and-contact-tracing-for-containment-and-slowing-down-a-covid-19-epidemic-a-modelling-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/13\/effectiveness-of-isolation-and-contact-tracing-for-containment-and-slowing-down-a-covid-19-epidemic-a-modelling-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Effectiveness of isolation and contact tracing for containment and slowing down a COVID-19 epidemic: a modelling study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The analyses from this modeling study showed that transmissibility and the duration of the latent period relative to the duration of the incubation period have a strong impact on how well the disease can be controlled.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While isolation and contact tracing will not fully control the COVID-19 outbreak, the authors emphasize that these are still important aspects of effective containment strategies as they will eventually reduce growth rates and increase epidemic doubling times.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kretzchmar, et al. (Mar 10, 2020). Effectiveness of isolation and contact tracing for containment and slowing down a COVID-19 epidemic: a modelling study. Pre-print downloaded on Mar 13 from<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.10.20033738\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.10.20033738<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The analyses from this modeling study showed that transmissibility and the duration of the latent period relative to the duration of the incubation period have a strong impact on how well the disease can be controlled.\u00a0 While isolation and contact tracing will not fully control the COVID-19 outbreak, the authors emphasize that these are still&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/13\/effectiveness-of-isolation-and-contact-tracing-for-containment-and-slowing-down-a-covid-19-epidemic-a-modelling-study\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-5042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5043,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions\/5043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5042"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}