De-Escalation by Reversing the Escalation with a Stronger Synergistic Package of Contact Tracing, Quarantine, Isolation and Personal Protection: Feasibility of Preventing a COVID-19 Rebound in Ontario, Canada, as a Case Study

Autor: Biao Tang, Francesca Scarabel, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Zachary McCarthy, Michael Glazer, Yanyu Xiao, Jane M. Heffernan, Ali Asgary, Nicholas Hume Ogden, Jianhong Wu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Biology, Vol 9, Iss 5, p 100 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2079-7737
DOI: 10.3390/biology9050100
Popis: Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, most Canadian provinces have gone through four distinct phases of social distancing and enhanced testing. A transmission dynamics model fitted to the cumulative case time series data permits us to estimate the effectiveness of interventions implemented in terms of the contact rate, probability of transmission per contact, proportion of isolated contacts, and detection rate. This allows us to calculate the control reproduction number during different phases (which gradually decreased to less than one). From this, we derive the necessary conditions in terms of enhanced social distancing, personal protection, contact tracing, quarantine/isolation strength at each escalation phase for the disease control to avoid a rebound. From this, we quantify the conditions needed to prevent epidemic rebound during de-escalation by simply reversing the escalation process.
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