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SUBMITTER: Scarselli D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8110767 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scarselli Davide D Budanur Nazmi Burak NB Timme Marc M Hof Björn B
Nature communications 20210510 1
High impact epidemics constitute one of the largest threats humanity is facing in the 21<sup>st</sup> century. In the absence of pharmaceutical interventions, physical distancing together with testing, contact tracing and quarantining are crucial in slowing down epidemic dynamics. Yet, here we show that if testing capacities are limited, containment may fail dramatically because such combined countermeasures drastically change the rules of the epidemic transition: Instead of continuous, the resp ...[more]