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Protecting high risk individuals as an approach to controlling COVID-19 outbreaks, 4 August 2020

Paper prepared by Mark Woolhouse, Bram van Bunnik and Aziz Sheikh.

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Protecting high risk individuals as an approach to controlling COVID-19 outbreaks - 4 August 2020

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Paper looking at the importance of transmission networks and the chain of trust. It was considered at SAGE 50 on 6 August 2020.

It should be viewed in context: the paper was the best assessment of the evidence at the time of writing. The picture is developing rapidly and, as new evidence or data emerges, SAGE updates its advice accordingly.

Therefore, some of the information in this paper may have been superseded and the author’s opinion or conclusion may since have developed.

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 These documents have not been peer-reviewed and there is no restriction on authors submitting and publishing this evidence in peer-reviewed journals.

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Published 25 September 2020

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