Evaluating the impact of quarantine measures on COVID-19 spread
During the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries implemented non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to control the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the causative pathogen of COVID-19. Among those NPIs, quarantine measures were widely adopted and enforced through stay-at-home and shelter-in-place orders. Understanding the effectiveness of quarantine measures can inform decision-making and control planning during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and for future disease outbreaks. In this study, we use mathematical models to evaluate the impact of quarantine measures on COVID-19 spread in four cities that experienced large-scale outbreaks in the spring of 2020: Wuhan, New York, Milan, and London. We develop a susceptible-exposed-infected-removed (SEIR)-type model with a component of quarantine and couple this disease transmission model with a data assimilation method. By calibrating the model to case data, we estimate key epidemiological parameters before lockdown in each city. We further examine the impact of quarantine rates on COVID-19 spread after lockdown using model simulations. Results indicate that quarantine of susceptible and exposed individuals and undetected infections is necessary to contain the outbreak; however, the quarantine rates for these populations can be reduced through faster isolation of confirmed cases. We generate counterfactual simulations to estimate effectiveness of quarantine measures. Without quarantine measures, the cumulative confirmed cases could be 73, 22, 43 and 93 times higher than reported numbers within 40 days after lockdown in Wuhan, New York, Milan, and London. Our findings underscore the essential role of quarantine during the early phase of the pandemic.
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