Living in a pandemic: changes in mobility routines, social activity and adherence to COVID-19 protective measures.

ABSTRACT: Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs), aimed at reducing the diffusion of the COVID-19 pandemic, have dramatically influenced our everyday behaviour. In this work, we study how individuals adapted their daily movements and person-to-person contact patterns over time in response to the NPIs. We leverage longitudinal GPS mobility data of hundreds of thousands of anonymous individuals to empirically show and quantify the dramatic disruption in people's mobility habits and social behaviour. We find that local interventions did not just impact the number of visits to different venues but also how people experience them. Individuals spend less time in venues, preferring simpler and more predictable routines, also reducing person-to-person contacts. Moreover, we find that the individual pattern

SUBMITTER: Lucchini L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8712525 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature