Synergistic interventions to control COVID-19: Mass testing and isolation mitigates reliance on distancing

• Emily Howerton ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ehowerton@psu.edu

  Affiliations Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0639-3728

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• Matthew J. Ferrari,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5251-8168

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• Ottar N. Bjørnstad,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1158-3753

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• Tiffany L. Bogich,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8143-5289

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• Rebecca K. Borchering,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4309-2913

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• Chris P. Jewell,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7902-2178

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• James D. Nichols,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation U.S. Geological Survey, Eastern Ecological Science Center at the Patuxent Research Refuge, Laurel, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7631-2890

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• William J. M. Probert,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3437-759X

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• Michael C. Runge,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation U.S. Geological Survey, Eastern Ecological Science Center at the Patuxent Research Refuge, Laurel, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8081-536X

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• Michael J. Tildesley,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology and Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research (SBIDER), Mathematics Institute and School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6875-7232

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• Cécile Viboud,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3243-4711

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• Katriona Shea

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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