Impact of tiered measures on social contact and mixing patterns of in Italy during the second wave of COVID-19.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most countries around the world enforced non-pharmaceutical interventions against COVID-19. Italy was one of the first countries to be affected by the pandemic, imposing a hard lockdown, in the first epidemic wave. During the second wave, the country implemented progressively restrictive tiers at the regional level according to weekly epidemiological risk assessments. This paper quantifies the impact of these restrictions on contacts and on the reproduction number.

Methods

Representative (with respect to age, sex, and region of residence) longitudinal surveys of the Italian population were undertaken during the second epidemic wave. Epidemiologically relevant contact patterns were measured and compared with pre-pandemic levels and according to the level of interve

SUBMITTER: Tizzani M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10195658 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature