Contact tracing efficiency, transmission heterogeneity, and accelerating COVID-19 epidemics
Contact tracing efficiency, transmission heterogeneity, and accelerating COVID-19 epidemics
Abstract Simultaneously controlling COVID-19 epidemics and limiting economic and societal impacts presents a difficult challenge, especially with limited public health budgets. Testing, contact tracing, and isolating/quarantining is a key strategy that has been used to reduce transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. However, manual contact tracing is a …