Modelling SARS-CoV-2 transmission in a UK university setting.

ABSTRACT: Around 40% of school leavers in the UK attend university and individual universities generally host thousands of students each academic year. Bringing together these student communities during the COVID-19 pandemic may require strong interventions to control transmission. Prior modelling analyses of SARS-CoV-2 transmission within universities using compartmental modelling approaches suggest that outbreaks are almost inevitable. We constructed a network-based model to capture the interactions of a student population in different settings (housing, social and study). For a single academic term of a representative campus-based university, we ran a susceptible-latent-infectious-recovered type epidemic process, parameterised according to available estimates for SARS-CoV-2. We investigated the i

SUBMITTER: Hill EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7611483 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature