Strategizing COVID-19 lockdowns using mobility patterns.

ABSTRACT: During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments have attempted to control infections within their territories by implementing border controls and lockdowns. While large-scale quarantine has been the most successful short-term policy, the enormous costs exerted by lockdowns over long periods are unsustainable. As such, developing more flexible policies that limit transmission without requiring large-scale quarantine is an urgent priority. Here, the dynamics of dismantled community mobility structures within US society during the COVID-19 outbreak are analysed by applying the Louvain method with modularity optimization to weekly datasets of mobile device locations. Our networks are built based on individuals' movements from February to May 2020. In a multi-scale community detection process using t

SUBMITTER: Buchel O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8633798 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature