{"id":5610,"date":"2020-04-02T14:55:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T21:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5610"},"modified":"2021-03-03T14:56:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T22:56:22","slug":"quantifying-sars-cov-2-transmission-suggests-epidemic-control-with-digital-contact-tracing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/02\/quantifying-sars-cov-2-transmission-suggests-epidemic-control-with-digital-contact-tracing\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 transmission suggests epidemic control with digital contact tracing."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The authors conclude that viral spread of SARS-CoV-2 is too fast to be contained by manual contact tracing, but could still be controlled with a more efficient contact tracing app.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Widespread implementation of such an app, especially if combined with improved early testing, could play a critical role in reducing the need for lockdown measures.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ferretti et al. (March 31, 2020). Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 transmission suggests epidemic control with digital contact tracing. Science. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.08.20032946\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.08.20032946<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authors conclude that viral spread of SARS-CoV-2 is too fast to be contained by manual contact tracing, but could still be controlled with a more efficient contact tracing app. Widespread implementation of such an app, especially if combined with improved early testing, could play a critical role in reducing the need for lockdown measures&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/02\/quantifying-sars-cov-2-transmission-suggests-epidemic-control-with-digital-contact-tracing\/\">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":[22],"class_list":["post-5610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610","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=5610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5611,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions\/5611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5610"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}