id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-298563-346lwjr8 Kaplan, Edward H. Containing 2019-nCoV (Wuhan) coronavirus 2020-03-07 .txt text/plain 2288 114 49 Given that a vaccine cannot be developed and deployed for at least a year, preventing further transmission relies upon standard principles of containment, two of which are the isolation of known cases and the quarantine of persons believed at high risk of exposure. Given that a vaccine cannot be developed and deployed for at least a year, preventing further transmission relies upon standard principles of containment, two of which are the isolation of known cases and the quarantine of persons believed at high risk of exposure (with the latter extended inside China to prevent travel to or from Wuhan, and globally via the cancellation of air travel to and from China). What follows are some probability models for assessing the effectiveness of case isolation of infected individuals and quarantine of exposed individuals within a community during the initial phase of an outbreak with illustrations based on early observations from Wuhan. ./cache/cord-298563-346lwjr8.txt ./txt/cord-298563-346lwjr8.txt