Mining relationships between transmission clusters from contact tracing data: An application for investigating COVID-19 outbreak.
Contact tracing of reported infections could enable close contacts to be identified, tested, and quarantined for controlling further spread. This strategy has been well demonstrated in the surveillance and control of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) epidemics. This study aims to leverage contact tracing data to investigate the degree of spread and the formation of transmission cascades composing of multiple clusters.
Author(s): Kwan, Tsz Ho, Wong, Ngai Sze, Yeoh, Eng-Kiong, Lee, Shui Shan
DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocab175