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SUBMITTER: Thompson RN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7288278 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Thompson Robin N RN Lovell-Read Francesca A FA Obolski Uri U
Journal of clinical medicine 20200501 5
Interventions targeting symptomatic hosts and their contacts were successful in bringing the 2003 SARS pandemic under control. In contrast, the COVID-19 pandemic has been harder to contain, partly because of its wide spectrum of symptoms in infectious hosts. Current evidence suggests that individuals can transmit the novel coronavirus while displaying few symptoms. Here, we show that the proportion of infections arising from hosts with few symptoms at the start of an outbreak can, in combination ...[more]