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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2021

Investigation of the Efficiency of Mask Wearing, Contact Tracing, and Case Isolation during the COVID-19 Outbreak.

Tatiana Filonets, Maxim Solovchuk, Wayne Gao, Tony Wen-Hann Sheu

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  4. Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Remote Monitoring to Establish a Community Health Intervention During COVID-19: A Community Intervention Trial.Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Tatiana FilonetsDepartment of Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan.
Maxim SolovchukDepartment of Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-5800-9951
Wayne GaoCollege of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taipei 11031, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-6083-5849
Tony Wen-Hann SheuDepartment of Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan.

Funding

Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan MOST 106 2115 M 400 001National Health Research Institutes BN-109-PP-08
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Case isolation and contact tracing are two essential parts of control measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, however, additional interventions, such as mask wearing, are required. Taiwan successfully contained local COVID-19 transmission after the initial imported cases in the country in early 2020 after applying the above-mentioned interventions. In order to explain the containment of the disease spread in Taiwan and understand the efficiency of different non-pharmaceutical interventions, a mathematical model has been developed. A stochastic model was implemented in order to estimate the effectiveness of mask wearing together with case isolation and contact tracing. We investigated different approaches towards mask usage, estimated the effect of the interventions on the basic reproduction number (R

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case isolationcontact tracingCOVID-19mask wearingnon-pharmaceutical interventionsoutbreak control

Identifiers

PMID34201860
PMCPMC8269102

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