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cord-254886-fl5ar971	Arav, Y.	Understanding the indoor pre-symptomatic transmission mechanism of COVID-19	2020-05-17		.txt	text/plain	2228	121	54	The model explicitly tracks the dynamics of contact and airborne transmission between individuals indoors, and was validated against the observed fundamental attributes of the epidemic, the secondary attack rate (SAR) and serial interval distribution. We provide evidence that a combination of rather easy to implement measures of frequent hand washing, cleaning fomites and avoiding physical contact decreases the risk of infection by an order of magnitude, similarly to wearing masks and gloves. In fact, pre-symptomatic transmission was recently referred to as the Achilles' heel of COVID-19 pandemic control, as symptom-based detection of infection is less effective in comparison to the control of the SARS epidemic in 2003 (7) . We decided to examine five HBMs: Washing hands, cleaning fomites, maintaining social distancing (i.e avoiding physical contact), wearing a mask and 6 All rights reserved. Frequent hand washing and fomite cleaning coupled with avoiding physical contact result in a similar risk for infection as wearing gloves and a mask.	./cache/cord-254886-fl5ar971.txt	./txt/cord-254886-fl5ar971.txt