Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Piasecki T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8372969 | biostudies-literature | 2021
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Piasecki Tomasz T Mucha Piotr B PB Rosińska Magdalena M
PloS one 20210818 8
Contact tracing and quarantine are well established non-pharmaceutical epidemic control tools. The paper aims to clarify the impact of these measures in evolution of epidemic. The proposed deterministic model defines a simple rule on the reproduction number [Formula: see text] in terms of ratio of diagnosed cases and, quarantine and transmission parameters. The model is applied to the early stage of Covid19 crisis in Poland. We investigate 3 scenarios corresponding to different ratios of diagnos ...[more]