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Optimizing the order of actions in contact tracing
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2021
arXiv
pre-print
Contact tracing is a key tool for managing epidemic diseases like HIV, tuberculosis, and COVID-19. Manual investigations by human contact tracers remain a dominant way in which this is carried out. This process is limited by the number of contact tracers available, who are often overburdened during an outbreak or epidemic. As a result, a crucial decision in any contact tracing strategy is, given a set of contacts, which person should a tracer trace next? In this work, we develop a formal model
arXiv:2107.09803v1
fatcat:qsa7ayutknehzmarekp5jo5bum