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InstituteforDiseaseModeling / covasim

COVID-19 Agent-based Simulator (Covasim): a model for exploring coronavirus dynamics and interventions
https://covasim.org
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Put diagnosed people in quarantine? #208

Closed cliffckerr closed 4 years ago

cliffckerr commented 4 years ago

(From Kyle Gustafson) Currently, only contacts of a diagnosed person are counted as being in quarantine. Should the diagnosed person themselves also be counted in quarantine?

kgustafs commented 4 years ago

From my perspective - contact_tracing and test_prob (for example) are separate (and apparently uncoupled?) interventions but both could/should lead to quarantine of positive tests.

Does the diagnosed person become removed from circulation in some other way than being counted in quarantine? I suppose they go to the "diagnosed" bin rather than the "infectious" bin. In practice, a person could be diagnosed and told to stay home but reject the advice, and in any case, if they stay home, they are probably still exposing household members - but then they should be contacts who are quarantined.

cliffckerr commented 4 years ago

Currently, people who are diagnosed are isolated, not in quarantine. To treat isolated people as being in quarantine, simply set iso_factor == quar_factor.