A city cluster risk-based approach for Sars-CoV-2 and isolation barriers based on anonymized mobile phone users' location data.

ABSTRACT: Given the recent outbreak of Sars-CoV-2, several countries started to seek different strategies to control contamination and minimize fatalities, which are usually the primary objectives for all strategies. Secondary objectives are related to economic factors, therefore ensuring that society would be able is to keep its essential activities and avoid supply disruptions. This paper presents an application of anonymized mobile phone users' location data to estimate population flow amongst cities with an origin-destination matrix. The work includes a clustering analysis of cities, which may enable policymakers (and epidemiologists) to develop public policies giving the appropriate consideration for each set of cities within a Province or State. Risk measures are included to analyze the severi

SUBMITTER: Silva JCS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7644257 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature