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cord-288867-iicfe7il	Bauch, Chris T	COVID-19: when should quarantine be enforced?	2020-05-20		.txt	text/plain	924	63	53	These questions are how we might think of some of the dilemmas created by the COVID-19 pandemic, which presents us with difficult trade-offs in equity, economics, public health, and civil liberties. Plainly put, they ask the question: should health authorities place potentially exposed individuals into a quarantine setting where their separation from others can be enforced, or should authorities simply let them go home, ask them to avoid contacts, and monitor them for COVID-19 symptoms through phone calls or health-care visits? Aware of this dilemma, Peak and colleagues 1 use a mathematical model of the early spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections to establish the conditions under which individual quarantine works better than active monitoring. Individual quarantine versus active monitoring of contacts for the mitigation of COVID-19: a modelling study	./cache/cord-288867-iicfe7il.txt	./txt/cord-288867-iicfe7il.txt