Effect of manual and digital contact tracing on covid-19 outbreaks: A study on empirical contact data

A Barrat, C Cattuto, M Kivelä… - Journal of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Non-pharmaceutical interventions are crucial to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic and
contain re-emergence phenomena. Targeted measures such as case isolation and contact …

Implication of backward contact tracing in the presence of overdispersed transmission in COVID-19 outbreaks

A Endo, QJ Leclerc, GM Knight… - Wellcome open …, 2021 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Introduction: Contact tracing has the potential to control outbreaks without the need for
stringent physical distancing policies, eg civil lockdowns. Unlike forward contact tracing …

Using a household-structured branching process to analyse contact tracing in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

M Fyles, E Fearon, C Overton… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We explore strategies of contact tracing, case isolation and quarantine of exposed contacts
to control the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic using a branching process model with household …

Feature selection for proximity estimation in COVID-19 contact tracing apps based on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)

PG Madoery, R Detke, L Blanco, S Comerci… - Pervasive and Mobile …, 2021 - Elsevier
During the COVID-19 pandemic, contact tracing apps based on the Bluetooth Low Energy
(BLE) technology found in smartphones have been deployed by multiple countries despite …

Using real-world contact networks to quantify the effectiveness of digital contact tracing and isolation strategies for Covid-19 pandemic

G Cencetti, G Santin, A Longa, E Pigani, A Barrat… - medRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Contact tracing, both manual and potentially with digital apps, is considered a key ingredient
in the control of infectious disease outbreaks, and in the strategies making it possible to …

COVID-19 mitigation by digital contact tracing and contact prevention (app-based social exposure warnings)

GJ Soldano, JA Fraire, JM Finochietto, R Quiroga - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
A plethora of measures are being combined in the attempt to reduce SARS-CoV-2 spread.
Due to its sustainability, contact tracing is one of the most frequently applied interventions …

A scalable solution for signaling face touches to reduce the spread of surface-based pathogens

C Rojas, N Poulsen, M Van Tuyl, D Vargas… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Hand-to-Face transmission has been estimated to be a minority, yet non-negligible, vector of
COVID-19 transmission and a major vector for multiple other pathogens. At the same time …

Digital proximity tracing in the COVID-19 pandemic on empirical contact networks

G Cencetti, G Santin, A Longa, E Pigani, A Barrat… - 2020 - researchsquare.com
Digital contact tracing is increasingly considered as a tool to control infectious disease
outbreaks. As part of a broader test, trace, isolate, and quarantine strategy, digital contract …

The feasibility of targeted test-trace-isolate for the control of SARS-CoV-2 variants

WJ Bradshaw, JH Huggins, AL Lloyd, KM Esvelt - medRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
Abstract The SARS-CoV-2 variant B. 1.1. 7 reportedly exhibits substantially higher
transmission than the ancestral strain and may generate a major surge of cases before …

On the Effectiveness of Digital Contact Tracing and Contact Prevention Under Varying COVID-19 Infection Detection Rates

G Soldano, JA Fraire, JM Finochietto… - Available at SSRN …, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
Background: A plethora of measures are being combined in the attempt to reduce SARS-
CoV-2 spread, which arguably remains uncontrolled as of December 2020. Amongst …