traveller_screening

This repository contains code from:

Estimated effectiveness of symptom and risk screening to prevent the spread of COVID-19

Authors: Gostic, Gomez, Mumah, Kucharski, Lloyd-Smith. Last update: Feb. 21, 2020 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.28.20019224v2

-> [Read the study].

-> [Use our model to generate your own outputs].

The source code we used to perform these analyses runs in R, and is all in this repo. If you want to use or modify our code, keep reading.

The exact release we used to generate the figures in the manuscript is [here].

Feel free to use or modify this code. We just ask that you cite us:


contact kgostic [at] uchicago.edu with questions


These scripts run the model and generate output from:

This code by K. Gostic, adapted from a previous version implemented by A. Kucharski.

Repository contents:

All code runs in R.

Code for the shiny app is hosted elsewhere. These scripts here generate figures shown in the manuscript.