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[...]Böhmer and colleagues report a detailed transmission network of the outbreak, which is accurately displayed in the main figure of the Article.4 What are the main lessons to be learned from the analysis of this outbreak? While traditional tracing methods might be efficacious in controlling small events such as the Bavarian outbreak, they are clearly insufficient to control an epidemic at its peak. [...]novel technologies such as contact tracing applications are urgently needed to effectively control the pandemic.8 In the Bavarian cohort, only one infected individual was asymptomatic. [...]Böhmer and colleagues' study elegantly shows that a thorough description and analysis of early outbreak events of COVID-19 can be very valuable to improve understanding of transmission dynamics and for applying appropriate infection control measures.
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1 Department I of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Cologne, 50931 Cologne, Germany; Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, University of Cologne, 50931 Cologne, Germany; German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Bonn-Cologne, Cologne, Germany
2 Department I of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Cologne, 50931 Cologne, Germany; German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Bonn-Cologne, Cologne, Germany