Will telecommuting strategies stop the virus from circulating?

How can we best organise on-site workplace and school attendance periods and remote work to slow the circulation of Sars-CoV-2? Is it better to separate classes? Bring your whole team in at the same time? Set this up on daily or weekly schedules? The COVID-19 pandemic has forced most countries to impose contact limitations in workplaces, universities and schools. Scientists from the CNRS, Université Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, ENS de Lyon and INRIA, in collaboration with the Institut Pasteur and INSERM, have analysed the impact of two strategies, rotating and on-off strategies, in stopping the epidemic as it reaches a community, whether in a school or in an office.

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