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Area of Science:

  • Public Health
  • Epidemiology
  • Infectious Disease Modeling

Background:

  • Outbreaks in communal settings pose unique challenges for quarantine planning.
  • Predicting quarantine needs is crucial for resource allocation and outbreak containment.
  • Interactions between communal and external populations complicate projections.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a method for projecting quarantine needs in communal settings during outbreaks.
  • To create a tool for anticipating potential superspreading events.
  • To apply the method using real-world data from a university during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a short-term projection method using basic surveillance data.
  • The method is conceptually simple, rigorous, and easy to implement.
  • Applied the method to project quarantine utilization for on-campus students at a large urban university.

Main Results:

  • The approach accurately projected 10-day-ahead quarantine utilization.
  • Projections were most accurate when anticipating weekend superspreading events, particularly around holidays.
  • The model effectively accounted for interactions between on-campus and off-campus populations.

Conclusions:

  • An easy-to-use software tool was developed to project quarantine utilization.
  • The tool can account for mixing with outside populations.
  • Potential applications include universities, corrections facilities, and the military.