[HTML][HTML] Rapid review of social contact patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic

CY Liu, J Berlin, MC Kiti, E Del Fava, A Grow… - …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Background: Physical distancing measures aim to reduce person-to-person contact, a key
driver of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission. In …

Estimating the burden of SARS-CoV-2 in France

H Salje, C Tran Kiem, N Lefrancq, N Courtejoie… - Science, 2020 - science.org
France has been heavily affected by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and went into lockdown on 17 March 2020. Using models applied …

A systematic review of social contact surveys to inform transmission models of close-contact infections

T Hoang, P Coletti, A Melegaro, J Wallinga… - …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Background: Researchers increasingly use social contact data to inform models for
infectious disease spread with the aim of guiding effective policies about disease prevention …

The impact of COVID-19 and strategies for mitigation and suppression in low-and middle-income countries

PGT Walker, C Whittaker, OJ Watson, M Baguelin… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic poses a severe threat to
public health worldwide. We combine data on demography, contact patterns, disease …

Modelling the impact of testing, contact tracing and household quarantine on second waves of COVID-19

A Aleta, D Martin-Corral, A Pastore y Piontti… - Nature Human …, 2020 - nature.com
While severe social-distancing measures have proven effective in slowing the coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, second-wave scenarios are likely to emerge as …

Impact of lockdown on COVID-19 epidemic in Île-de-France and possible exit strategies

L Di Domenico, G Pullano, CE Sabbatini, PY Boëlle… - BMC medicine, 2020 - Springer
Background More than half of the global population is under strict forms of social distancing.
Estimating the expected impact of lockdown and exit strategies is critical to inform decision …

Underdetection of cases of COVID-19 in France threatens epidemic control

G Pullano, L Di Domenico, CE Sabbatini, E Valdano… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
As countries in Europe gradually relaxed lockdown restrictions after the first wave, test–trace–
isolate strategies became critical to maintain the incidence of coronavirus disease 2019 …

[HTML][HTML] Individual variation in susceptibility or exposure to SARS-CoV-2 lowers the herd immunity threshold

MGM Gomes, MU Ferreira, RM Corder, JG King… - Journal of theoretical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Individual variation in susceptibility and exposure is subject to selection by natural infection,
accelerating the acquisition of immunity, and reducing herd immunity thresholds and …

Inferring high-resolution human mixing patterns for disease modeling

D Mistry, M Litvinova, A Pastore y Piontti… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Mathematical and computational modeling approaches are increasingly used as
quantitative tools in the analysis and forecasting of infectious disease epidemics. The …

Projecting contact matrices in 177 geographical regions: An update and comparison with empirical data for the COVID-19 era

K Prem, K Zandvoort, P Klepac, RM Eggo… - PLoS computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Mathematical models have played a key role in understanding the spread of directly-
transmissible infectious diseases such as Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), as well as …