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- Title
Evaluation of phase-adjusted interventions for COVID-19 using an improved SEIR model.
- Authors
Jiang, Honglin; Gu, Zhouhong; Liu, Haitong; Huang, Junhui; Wang, Zhengzhong; Xiong, Ying; Tong, Yixin; Yin, Jiangfan; Jiang, Feng; Chen, Yue; Jiang, Qingwu; Zhou, Yibiao
- Abstract
A local COVID-19 outbreak with two community clusters occurred in a large industrial city, Shaoxing, China, in December 2021 after serial interventions were imposed. We aimed to understand the reason by analysing the characteristics of the outbreak and evaluating the effects of phase-adjusted interventions. Publicly available data from 7 December 2021 to 25 January 2022 were collected to analyse the epidemiological characteristics of this outbreak. The incubation period was estimated using Hamiltonian Monte Carlo method. A well-fitted extended susceptible-exposed-infectious-recovered model was used to simulate the impact of different interventions under various combination of scenarios. There were 387 SARS-CoV-2-infected cases identified, and 8.3% of them were initially diagnosed as asymptomatic cases. The estimated incubation period was 5.4 (95% CI 5.2–5.7) days for all patients. Strengthened measures of comprehensive quarantine based on tracing led to less infections and a shorter duration of epidemic. With a same period of incubation, comprehensive quarantine was more effective in containing the transmission than other interventions. Our findings reveal an important role of tracing and comprehensive quarantine in blocking community spread when a cluster occurred. Regions with tense resources can adopt home quarantine as a relatively affordable and low-impact intervention measure compared with centralized quarantine.
- Subjects
INCUBATION period (Communicable diseases); MONTE Carlo method; COVID-19; INFECTIOUS disease transmission; COVID-19 pandemic
- Publication
Epidemiology & Infection, 2024, Vol 152, p1
- ISSN
0950-2688
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0950268823001796