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. 2020 May 16;395(10236):1541-1542.
doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31016-3. Epub 2020 Apr 29.

Institutional, not home-based, isolation could contain the COVID-19 outbreak

Borame L Dickens  1 , Joel R Koo  1 , Annelies Wilder-Smith  2 , Alex R Cook  1
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Institutional, not home-based, isolation could contain the COVID-19 outbreak

Borame L Dickens et al. Lancet. .
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Number of new infections (A) and cumulative infections (B) within 7 months under the baseline control measures (black), home-based isolation (blue), and institution-based isolation (red)
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