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. 2021 Nov 15;37:100527. doi: 10.1016/j.epidem.2021.100527

Table 1.

Parameter ranges and interventions included in model.

Parameter Values investigated Referencesa
Basic epidemiology
Population size
  • 20,000

Number initially infected
  • 100

Possible cases per infectious individual (R0), prior to environmental corrections
  • Negative binomial distribution (main text):

mean = 2.5; k = 0.10
  • Lognormal distribution (Fig. S2):

mean= 2.5; sd = 0.10
  • Negative binomial distribution, Delta (Fig. S7, S8): mean = 2.5; k = 0.10.

(Endo et al., 2020;Liu and Rocklov, 2021)
Transmission events per infectious individual
  • Poisson distribution: λ=3

Virus generation time
  • Weibull distribution: k=2.826;λ=5.665

(Ferretti et al., 2020)
Proportion of transmissions maintained within the UCB community
  • 90% (main text)

  • 50% (Fig. S5)

Population proportion vaccinated (UC Berkeley COVID-19 Dashboard,n.d.; University of Alabama System COVID-19 Dashboard, n.d.)
Proportion of vaccinated individuals experiencing breakthrough cases (Polack et al., 2020)
Threshold viral titer for symptom onset
  • Lognormal distribution: mean = 105 viral cp/μl RNA; sd = 104 viral cp/μ (main text; yields ~30% asymptomatic infections)

  • Lognormal distribution: mean = 107 viral cp/μl RNA; sd = 104 viral cp/μ (Fig. S3; yields ~50% asymptomatic infections)

(Mizumoto et al., 2020, Nishiura et al., 2020)
Behavior-based NPIs
Group size limits
  • 6, 12, 16, 20, 50, no limit (main text;Fig. S1, S2)

Population proportion adhering to group size limits
Lag time to symptomatic isolation
  • Normal distribution: mean = 1,2,3,4,5 days; sd = 0.5 days

Lag time to contact tracing
  • Normal distribution: mean = 1 day; sd = 0.5 days

Population proportion participating in contact tracing
  • 0% (main text)

  • 90% (Fig. S4)

Testing interventions
Testing frequency
  • semi-weekly (2x/week)

  • weekly

  • every-two-weeks

Test days per week
  • 2 (main text)

  • 5, 7 (Fig. S6)

Testing turnaround time
  • Normal distribution: mean = 1,2,3,4,5,10 days; sd= 0.5 days

Test limit of detection
  • 101, 103, 105 viral cp/μl RNA

(Amen et al., 2020, Vogels et al., 2020, Meyerson et al., 2020, Dao Thi et al., 2020, Bordi et al., 2020, Fiedler et al., 2021)
a

if applicable; otherwise, indicates a parameter investigated in this analysis.