Nationally Representative Social Contact Patterns among U.S. adults, August 2020-April 2021.

ABSTRACT: The response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S prompted abrupt and dramatic changes to social contact patterns. Monitoring changing social behavior is essential to provide reliable input data for mechanistic models of infectious disease, which have been increasingly used to support public health policy to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic. While some studies have reported on changing contact patterns throughout the pandemic., few have reported on differences in contact patterns among key demographic groups and none have reported nationally representative estimates. We conducted a national probability survey of US households and collected information on social contact patterns during two time periods: August-December 2020 (before widespread vaccine availability) and March-April 2021 (d

SUBMITTER: Nelson KN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8978954 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature