id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-352280-nn1rgdw0 Mayorga, Lía Detection and isolation of asymptomatic individuals can make the difference in COVID-19 epidemic management 2020-04-29 .txt text/plain 4334 253 51 Here we present a compartmental model for the disease that can provide healthcare burden parameters allowing to infer possible containment and suppression strategies, explicitly including asymptomatic individuals. The main conclusion of our work is that efficient and timely detection and isolation of these asymptomatic individuals can have dramatic effects on the effective reproduction number and healthcare burden parameters. In a basic reproduction number scenario of 2, isolating half of the asymptomatic individuals within four days of becoming infectious can effectively double the time it takes for clinical cases to duplicate in the exponential growth phase. . https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.23.20077255 doi: medRxiv preprint Figure 10 : The effect of detecting and isolating different percentages of asymptomatic individuals on a model triggering on-off suppression measures in the whole territory (trigger=50% ICU occupancy, stopper=30% ICU occupancy) in a 0 = 2 scenario. ./cache/cord-352280-nn1rgdw0.txt ./txt/cord-352280-nn1rgdw0.txt