{"id":7818,"date":"2020-06-25T13:08:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T20:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7818"},"modified":"2021-03-26T13:09:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T20:09:44","slug":"modeling-quarantine-during-epidemics-and-mass-testing-using-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/25\/modeling-quarantine-during-epidemics-and-mass-testing-using-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"Modeling Quarantine during Epidemics and Mass-Testing Using Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sedov et al. incorporate quarantining into a traditional Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model and\u00a0explore\u00a0the potential of using drones to deliver tests. Using a medium-sized city (about 100,000 people) in Sweden, the investigators found that the model predict<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0a substantial decrease in peak number of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">infected\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">people without increas<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ing<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0the duration of the epidemic<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. T<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">he number of days needed to collect tests from the whole population was dependent on\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">size of the drone fleet and number of tests that can be loaded onto one drone.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Sedov et al. (June 24, 2020). Modeling Quarantine during Epidemics and Mass-Testing Using Drones. PLOS ONE.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0235307\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0235307<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sedov et al. incorporate quarantining into a traditional Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model and\u00a0explore\u00a0the potential of using drones to deliver tests. Using a medium-sized city (about 100,000 people) in Sweden, the investigators found that the model predicts\u00a0a substantial decrease in peak number of\u00a0infected\u00a0people without increasing\u00a0the duration of the epidemic. The number of days needed to collect tests&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/25\/modeling-quarantine-during-epidemics-and-mass-testing-using-drones\/\">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-7818","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\/7818","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=7818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7819,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7818\/revisions\/7819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7818"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}