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Contact tracing evaluation for COVID-19 transmission in the different movement levels of a rural college town in the USA

Contact tracing evaluation for COVID-19 transmission in the different movement levels of a rural college town in the USA

Abstract Contact tracing can play a key role in controlling human-to-human transmission of a highly contagious disease such as COVID-19. We investigate the benefits and costs of contact tracing in the COVID-19 transmission. We estimate two unknown epidemic model parameters (basic reproductive number $$R_0$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>R</mml:mi> <mml:mn>0</mml:mn> </mml:msub> …