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cord-265891-jmpterrj	Eilersen, Andreas	Cost–benefit of limited isolation and testing in COVID-19 mitigation	2020-10-29		.txt	text/plain	3925	233	56	Therefore, we will here implement a crude form of contact tracing where we (1) close the workplaces of people who are tested positive for the disease, (2) isolate their regular social contacts for a limited period, and (3) keep symptomatic individuals in quarantine until they recover. If 10% efficiency is possible, corresponding to detecting about a third of infectious cases, then peak height could be reduced by a factor of almost three with to a 60% drop, if the probability of infected people being tested is only 10% per day of illness. In Fig. 4 , we show two possible scenarios where testing and contact tracing is implemented after a 30-day lockdown with a 75% reduction of the work and social spheres. Using reasonable COVID-19 infection parameters we find that the 1STQ strategy can contribute to epidemic mitigation, in the sense that it can reduce the peak number of infected individuals by about a factor of two even with a realistic testing rate of 10% per day of illness.	./cache/cord-265891-jmpterrj.txt	./txt/cord-265891-jmpterrj.txt