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