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Case isolation, contact tracing, and physical distancing are pillars of COVID-19 pandemic control, not optional choices

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Title

Case isolation, contact tracing, and physical distancing are pillars of COVID-19 pandemic control, not optional choices

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Amid the urgency of the COVID-19 pandemic response, the study by Adam Kucharski and colleagues in The Lancet Infectious Diseases reminds us that all available control measures should be used together to drive the effective reproduction number (Reff) below 1.

Date

2020-06-16

Citation

MacIntyre, Chandini Raina. 2020. "Case isolation, contact tracing, and physical distancing are pillars of COVID-19 pandemic control, not optional choices." The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

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Open Access on Lancet site.

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