Background: Mathematical modelling of infectious diseases transmitted by the respiratory or close-contact route (e.g., pandemic influenza) is increasingly being used to determine the impact of ...
The number of daily contacts changed over the course of 2020, following the first lockdown, corresponding to alterations in the COVID-19 guidance, suggests a study among staff and students at the ...
Epidemiologists have a particular interest in understanding human contact patterns. This kind of data can be hugely valuable in modeling and predicting the way infectious diseases spread. In turn, ...
A new disease model that can account for contact patterns between age groups shows how infectious diseases evolve in space and time and how to predict future case numbers across a region. The COVID-19 ...
The first ever long-term study of patterns of social contact in Hong Kong will improve our knowledge of the growth of epidemics. Hong Kong was where SARS emerged in 2002-2003. The study looked at the ...
A recent study investigates the impact of varying interventions, consequent contact patterns, and the transmissibility of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), under the ...