Increasing efficacy of contact-tracing applications by user referrals and stricter quarantining.

We study the effects of two mechanisms which increase the efficacy of contact-tracing applications (CTAs) such as the mobile phone contact-tracing applications that have been used during the COVID-19 epidemic. The first mechanism is the introduction of user referrals. We compare four scenarios for t...

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Main Authors: Leslie Ann Goldberg, Joost Jorritsma, Júlia Komjáthy, John Lapinskas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250435