Assessing the potential impact of transmission during prolonged viral shedding on the effect of lockdown relaxation on COVID-19

• Burcu Tepekule ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: burcu.tepekule@usz.ch

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland, Institute of Medical Virology, University of Zurich, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6936-9138

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• Anthony Hauser,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7221-1929

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• Viacheslav N. Kachalov,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland, Institute of Medical Virology, University of Zurich, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0310-3764

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• Sara Andresen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland, Institute of Medical Virology, University of Zurich, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7630-2617

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• Thomas Scheier,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Hygene, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7805-1025

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• Peter W. Schreiber,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8123-2601

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• Huldrych F. Günthard,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1142-6723

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• Roger D. Kouyos

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland, Institute of Medical Virology, University of Zurich, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9220-8348

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