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Link to paper AbstractCOVID-19 outbreaks in congregate settings remain a serious threat to the health of disproportionately affected populations such as people experiencing incarceration or homelessness, the elderly, and essential workers. An individual-based model accounting for individual infectiousness over time, staff work schedules, and testing and isolation schedules was developed to simulate community transmission ofContinue reading “Aligning staffing schedules with testing and isolation strategies reduces the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks in carceral and other congregate settings: A simulation study”

Link to paper Seth Blumberg, Phoebe Lu, Christopher M. Hoover, James O. Lloyd-Smith, Ada T. Kwan, David Sears, Stefano M. Bertozzi, Lee Worden Abstract While many transmission models have been developed for community spread of respiratory pathogens, less attention has been given to modeling the interdependence of disease introduction and spread seen in congregate settings,Continue reading “Mitigating outbreaks in congregate settings by decreasing the size of the susceptible population”