Isaac Newton Institute: Contact tracing, 9 June 2020
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Paper by the Isaac Newton Institute on contact tracing. This paper was available for participants to read at SAGE 41 on 11 June 2020, but not considered or discussed in the meeting.
The paper is the assessment of the evidence at the time of writing. As new evidence or data emerges, SAGE updates its advice accordingly.
This paper should be read in the context of the SPI-M-O: Consensus statement on COVID-19 from SAGE 41. It should also be read alongside the other papers informing the consensus statement:
- LSHTM: Implication of backward contact tracing in the presence of overdispersed transmission in COVID-19 outbreaks
- University of Oxford: Backwards contact tracing for COVID-19 – analysis and review
These documents are released as pre-print publications that have provided the government with rapid evidence during an emergency. These documents have not been peer-reviewed and there is no restriction on authors submitting and publishing this evidence in peer-reviewed journals.