{"id":8362,"date":"2020-07-20T15:42:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T22:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8362"},"modified":"2021-04-02T15:42:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T22:42:42","slug":"impact-of-delays-on-effectiveness-of-contact-tracing-strategies-for-covid-19-a-modelling-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/20\/impact-of-delays-on-effectiveness-of-contact-tracing-strategies-for-covid-19-a-modelling-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact of Delays on\u00a0Effectiveness\u00a0of Contact Tracing Strategies for COVID-19: A Modelling Study"},"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\">Kretzschmar et al. used a model to demonstrate the relative importance of minimizing delays and maximizing coverage of contact tracing and testing. With a delay of three days or longer in testing and tracing, even complete coverage of contacts was not sufficient to reach R values below 1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, which would lead to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">decline<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0of the epidemic<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/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\">Kretzschmar et al. (July 16, 2020). Impact of Delays on\u00a0Effectiveness\u00a0of Contact Tracing Strategies for COVID-19: A Modelling Study.\u00a0The Lancet\u00a0Public Health.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2468-2667(20)30157-2\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2468-2667(20)30157-2<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&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>Kretzschmar et al. used a model to demonstrate the relative importance of minimizing delays and maximizing coverage of contact tracing and testing. With a delay of three days or longer in testing and tracing, even complete coverage of contacts was not sufficient to reach R values below 1, which would lead to\u00a0decline\u00a0of the epidemic.\u00a0\u00a0 Kretzschmar&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/20\/impact-of-delays-on-effectiveness-of-contact-tracing-strategies-for-covid-19-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-8362","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\/8362","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=8362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8363,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8362\/revisions\/8363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8362"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}