Transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in a strictly-Orthodox Jewish community in the UK.

ABSTRACT: Some social settings such as households and workplaces, have been identified as high risk for SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Identifying and quantifying the importance of these settings is critical for designing interventions. A tightly-knit religious community in the UK experienced a very large COVID-19 epidemic in 2020, reaching 64.3% seroprevalence within 10 months, and we surveyed this community both for serological status and individual-level attendance at particular settings. Using these data, and a network model of people and places represented as a stochastic graph rewriting system, we estimated the relative contribution of transmission in households, schools and religious institutions to the epidemic, and the relative risk of infection in each of these settings. All congregate settings

SUBMITTER: Waites W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9121858 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature