Ding-Ping Liu

TL;DR: High transmissibility of COVID-19 before and immediately after symptom onset suggests that finding and isolating symptomatic patients alone may not suffice to interrupt transmission, and that more generalized measures might be required, such as social distancing.

TL;DR: High transmissibility of COVID-19 near symptom onset suggests that finding and isolating symptomatic patients alone may not suffice to contain the epidemic, and more generalized social distancing measures are required.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared and evaluated the effectiveness of case-based and population-based interventions for COVID-19 in Taiwan, and estimated that case detection, contact tracing, and 14-day quarantine of close contacts (regardless of symptoms) were estimated to decrease the reproduction number from the counterfactual value of 2.50 to 1.53.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors considered a comparative evaluation of COVID-19 containment across 50 distinctly governed regions between March 2020 and November 2021 and found that surveyed countries in Oceania and Asian outperformed countries in other regions for pandemic containment prior to vaccine development.

TL;DR: It is found that case-based interventions alone would not be sufficient to contain the epidemic, even in a setting where a highly efficient contact tracing program was in place, and coordinated efforts from both the government and citizens are indispensable in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic.