The influence of cross-border mobility on the COVID-19 epidemic in Nordic countries.

ABSTRACT: Restrictions of cross-border mobility are typically used to prevent an emerging disease from entering a country in order to slow down its spread. However, such interventions can come with a significant societal cost and should thus be based on careful analysis and quantitative understanding on their effects. To this end, we model the influence of cross-border mobility on the spread of COVID-19 during 2020 in the neighbouring Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. We investigate the immediate impact of cross-border travel on disease spread and employ counterfactual scenarios to explore the cumulative effects of introducing additional infected individuals into a population during the ongoing epidemic. Our results indicate that the effect of inter-country mobility on epidemi

SUBMITTER: Shubin M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11198903 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature