![]() ![]() Received: MaAccepted: AugPublished: October 7, 2022 Scarpino, The Rockefeller Foundation, UNITED STATES ![]() PLoS Comput Biol 18(10):Įditor: Samuel V. (2022) Prioritizing interventions for preventing COVID-19 outbreaks in military basic training. Ongoing uncertainties about virus variants and breakthrough infections necessitate continued vigilance in this setting, even as vaccination coverage increases.Ĭitation: España G, Perkins TA, Pollett SD, Smith ME, Moore SM, Kwon PO, et al. Until an effective transmission-blocking vaccine is adopted at high coverage by individuals involved with basic training, need will persist for non-pharmaceutical interventions to prevent outbreaks in military basic training. We also found that increased testing of trainees upon arrival could actually increase the risk of outbreaks, given the potential for false-positive test results to lead to susceptible individuals becoming infected in group isolation and seeding outbreaks in training units upon release. In particular, we showed that introductions by trainers and support staff may be a major vulnerability, given that those individuals remain at risk of community exposure throughout the training period. Our analysis revealed unique aspects of basic training that require customized approaches to outbreak prevention, which draws attention to the possibility that customized approaches may be necessary in other settings, too. We sought to identify improved strategies for preventing outbreaks in this setting using an agent-based model of a hypothetical cohort of trainees on a U.S. Like other congregate living settings, military basic training has been subject to outbreaks of COVID-19. ![]()
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