How contact patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic are related to pre-pandemic contact patterns and mobility trends.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) were adopted in Belgium in order to decrease social interactions between people and as such decrease viral transmission of SARS-CoV-2. With the aim to better evaluate the impact of NPIs on the evolution of the pandemic, an estimation of social contact patterns during the pandemic is needed when social contact patterns are not available yet in real time.

Methods

In this paper we use a model-based approach allowing for time varying effects to evaluate whether mobility and pre-pandemic social contact patterns can be used to predict the social contact patterns observed during the COVID-19 pandemic between November 11, 2020 and July 4, 2022.

Results

We found that location-specific pre-pandemic social contact patterns are g

SUBMITTER: Lajot A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10276431 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature