School closures during social lockdown and mental health, health behaviors, and well-being among children and adolescents during the first COVID-19 wave: a …

R Viner, S Russell, R Saulle, H Croker… - JAMA …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance School closures as part of broader social lockdown measures during the COVID-
19 pandemic may be associated with the health and well-being of children and adolescents …

Social contact patterns and implications for infectious disease transmission–a systematic review and meta-analysis of contact surveys

A Mousa, P Winskill, OJ Watson, O Ratmann, M Monod… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Background: Transmission of respiratory pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2 depends on
patterns of contact and mixing across populations. Understanding this is crucial to predict …

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 …

Changes in social contacts in England during the COVID-19 pandemic between March 2020 and March 2021 as measured by the CoMix survey: A repeated cross …

A Gimma, JD Munday, KLM Wong, P Coletti… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Background During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the United
Kingdom government imposed public health policies in England to reduce social contacts in …

Perspectives of parents and teachers on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children's socio-emotional well-being

R Watts, J Pattnaik - Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023 - Springer
The negative impacts of COVID 19 on children's holistic development have been reported by
researchers around the world. This qualitative study explored teachers' and parents' …

SMD-YOLO: An efficient and lightweight detection method for mask wearing status during the COVID-19 pandemic

Z Han, H Huang, Q Fan, Y Li, Y Li, X Chen - Computer methods and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Background and Objective At present, the COVID-19 epidemic is still spreading
worldwide and wearing a mask in public areas is an effective way to prevent the spread of …

Reconstructing social mixing patterns via weighted contact matrices from online and representative surveys

J Koltai, O Vásárhelyi, G Röst, M Karsai - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
The unprecedented behavioural responses of societies have been evidently shaping the
COVID-19 pandemic, yet it is a significant challenge to accurately monitor the continuously …

Individual level analysis of digital proximity tracing for COVID-19 in Belgium highlights major bottlenecks

C Geenen, J Raymenants, S Gorissen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
To complement labour-intensive conventional contact tracing, digital proximity tracing was
implemented widely during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the privacy-centred design …

Predicting norovirus and rotavirus resurgence in the United States following the COVID-19 pandemic: a mathematical modelling study

BL Lappe, ME Wikswo, AK Kambhampati… - BMC Infectious …, 2023 - Springer
Background To reduce the burden from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States,
federal and state local governments implemented restrictions such as limitations on …

Assessing vaccination prioritization strategies for COVID-19 in South Africa based on age-specific compartment model

C Zuo, Z Meng, F Zhu, Y Zheng, Y Ling - Frontiers in public health, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The vaccines are considered to be important for the prevention and control of coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, considering the limited vaccine supply within an …