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Is a 14-day quarantine period optimal for effectively controlling coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)?

2020-03-18

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> <h4>Background</h4> The outbreak of a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) disease (Covid-19) has become pandemic. To be more effectively controlling the disease, it is critical to set up an optimal quarantine period so that about 95% of the cases developing symptoms will be retained for isolation. At the moment, the WHO-established quarantine period is 14 days based on previous reports which had studied...

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Literature Corpus work: 1345666d-b3b7-5fb4-863c-7ead6dcd17db
DOI: 10.1101/2020.03.15.20036533

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