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The impact of contact tracing on the spread of COVID-19: an egocentric agent-based model Cover

The impact of contact tracing on the spread of COVID-19: an egocentric agent-based model

Open Access
|Jun 2021

Figures & Tables

Figure 1:

NetLogo interface of ConTrace.
NetLogo interface of ConTrace.

Figure 2:

Conceptual flow chart of ConTrace.
Conceptual flow chart of ConTrace.

Figure 3:

Properties of agents in ConTrace.
Properties of agents in ConTrace.

Figure 4:

Visualization of an infection radius as an indicator of an ego’s contacts.
Visualization of an infection radius as an indicator of an ego’s contacts.

Figure 5:

Contact tracing and quarantine procedure flow.
Contact tracing and quarantine procedure flow.

Figure 6:

Levels of contact tracing.
Levels of contact tracing.

Figure 7:

Main effect of informant accuracy.
Main effect of informant accuracy.

Figure 8:

Main effect of level of contact tracing.
Main effect of level of contact tracing.

Figure 9:

Interaction between informant accuracy and level of contact tracing.
Interaction between informant accuracy and level of contact tracing.

Figure 10:

Sensitivity analysis on the timing of contact tracing and asymptomatic percent.
Sensitivity analysis on the timing of contact tracing and asymptomatic percent.

Three contexts of model testing and selected previous estimations_

Current model situations
SituationAverage R0 Context
S11.62Public health intervention like mask-wearing
S22.11 R0 near lower end of best estimations, no public health intervention
S32.56 R0 near higher end of best estimations, no public health intervention
Previous R0 estimates
  • R0

  • Citation

  • Context

2.20 Li et al. (2020) Wuhan; January 22, 2020
2.20 Riou and Althaus (2020) China and overseas; January 18, 2020
2.24 Zhao et al. (2020) China; January 10-14, 2020
2.28 Zhang et al. (2020) Diamond Cruise Ship, February, 2020
2.35 Kucharski et al. (2020a) Wuhan; January-February, 2020
2.50 Imai et al. (2020) Wuhan, January 18, 2020
2.55 Majumder and Mandl (2020) Wuhan, December 8, and January 26, 2020
2.68 Wu et al. (2020) Wuhan; December 31-January, 28, 2020
2.90 Liu et al. (2020) China and overseas; January 23, 2020

Six groups of agents_

Susceptible?Contact?Infected?Symptom?
SusceptibleXXX
Non-infected contactsXX
Presymptomatic and asymptomatic contactsXX
PatientsXX
RecoveredXXXX
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/connections-2021.022 | Journal eISSN: 2816-4245 | Journal ISSN: 0226-1766
Language: English
Page range: 25 - 46
Published on: Jun 17, 2021
Published by: International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA)
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2021 Andrew Pilny, Lin Xiang, Corey Huber, Will Silberman, Sean Goatley-Soan, published by International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA)
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.