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Optimising 'Test and Trace' Systems: Early lessons from a comparative analysis of six countries

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Optimising 'Test and Trace' Systems: Early lessons from a comparative analysis of six countries. / Moon, Joshua; Chekar, Choon Key; Barbera, David et al.
SSRN Working Paper, 2020.

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Moon, J, Chekar, CK, Barbera, D, Davey, G, Gaisser, S, Gaisser, T, Iwuji, C, Mesegeur, E, Ryan, JG & Hopkins, MM 2020 'Optimising 'Test and Trace' Systems: Early lessons from a comparative analysis of six countries' SSRN Working Paper. <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3694441>

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Moon, J., Chekar, C. K., Barbera, D., Davey, G., Gaisser, S., Gaisser, T., Iwuji, C., Mesegeur, E., Ryan, J. G., & Hopkins, M. M. (2020). Optimising 'Test and Trace' Systems: Early lessons from a comparative analysis of six countries. SSRN Working Paper. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3694441

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Moon J, Chekar CK, Barbera D, Davey G, Gaisser S, Gaisser T et al. Optimising 'Test and Trace' Systems: Early lessons from a comparative analysis of six countries. SSRN Working Paper. 2020 Oct 7.

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Moon, Joshua ; Chekar, Choon Key ; Barbera, David et al. / Optimising 'Test and Trace' Systems : Early lessons from a comparative analysis of six countries. SSRN Working Paper, 2020.

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