{"id":892,"date":"2020-09-14T17:53:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T00:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=892"},"modified":"2020-09-14T17:53:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T00:53:41","slug":"the-impact-of-digital-contact-tracing-on-the-sars-cov-2-pandemic-a-comprehensive-modelling-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/14\/the-impact-of-digital-contact-tracing-on-the-sars-cov-2-pandemic-a-comprehensive-modelling-study\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impact of Digital Contact Tracing on the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic &#8211; a Comprehensive Modelling Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>[Preprint, not peer-reviewed] A modeling study estimated that implementing a digital contact tracing system (DCT) combined with other interventions (social distancing and\/or random testing) could effectively reduce the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by pushing R<sub>0<\/sub> from above 3 to below 1 in a scenario where 40% of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 were asymptomatic. At least 60% of the population would need to use the DCT system to achieve a significant impact.<\/li>\n<li>The infections prevented by the DCT intervention come at the cost of requiring up to 15% of the population to be quarantined each day for the duration of the epidemic, even when there is sufficient testing capability to test every traced person.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pollmann et al. (Sept 14, 2020). The Impact of Digital Contact Tracing on the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic &#8211; a Comprehensive Modelling Study. Pre-print downloaded September 14 from <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.09.13.20192682\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.09.13.20192682<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Preprint, not peer-reviewed] A modeling study estimated that implementing a digital contact tracing system (DCT) combined with other interventions (social distancing and\/or random testing) could effectively reduce the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by pushing R0 from above 3 to below 1 in a scenario where 40% of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 were asymptomatic. At least 60%&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/14\/the-impact-of-digital-contact-tracing-on-the-sars-cov-2-pandemic-a-comprehensive-modelling-study\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[37],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-non-pharm-interventions","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":893,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}