Non-pharmaceutical interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic: A review

N Perra - Physics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Infectious diseases and human behavior are intertwined. On one side, our movements and
interactions are the engines of transmission. On the other, the unfolding of viruses might …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic review of empirical studies comparing the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions against COVID-19

A Mendez-Brito, C El Bcheraoui, F Pozo-Martin - Journal of Infection, 2021 - Elsevier
Objectives To evaluate which non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) have been more and
less effective in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods We performed a systematic …

Covasim: an agent-based model of COVID-19 dynamics and interventions

CC Kerr, RM Stuart, D Mistry… - PLOS Computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an urgent need for models that can project epidemic
trends, explore intervention scenarios, and estimate resource needs. Here we describe the …

OpenABM-Covid19—An agent-based model for non-pharmaceutical interventions against COVID-19 including contact tracing

R Hinch, WJM Probert, A Nurtay… - PLoS computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
SARS-CoV-2 has spread across the world, causing high mortality and unprecedented
restrictions on social and economic activity. Policymakers are assessing how best to …

Human mobility data in the COVID-19 pandemic: characteristics, applications, and challenges

T Hu, S Wang, B She, M Zhang, X Huang… - … Journal of Digital …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The COVID-19 pandemic poses unprecedented challenges around the world. Many studies
have applied mobility data to explore spatiotemporal trends over time, investigate …

Cryptic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and the first COVID-19 wave

JT Davis, M Chinazzi, N Perra, K Mu… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Considerable uncertainty surrounds the timeline of introductions and onsets of local
transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) globally …

Intracounty modeling of COVID-19 infection with human mobility: Assessing spatial heterogeneity with business traffic, age, and race

X Hou, S Gao, Q Li, Y Kang, N Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global threat presenting health, economic, and social
challenges that continue to escalate. Metapopulation epidemic modeling studies in the …

[HTML][HTML] The role of children in household transmission of COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis

F Chen, Y Tian, L Zhang, Y Shi - International Journal of Infectious …, 2022 - Elsevier
Objectives To explore household transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 in children in new-variants
dominating periods. Methods Through retrieval in PubMed and Embase, studies were …

A meta-analysis on the role of children in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in household transmission clusters

Y Zhu, CJ Bloxham, KD Hulme… - Clinical Infectious …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Two mini-sequencing methods, FP-TDI (template-directed dye-terminator incorporation with
fluorescence-polarization) and MassArray (matrix assisted laser desorption ionization time …

Overdispersion in COVID-19 increases the effectiveness of limiting nonrepetitive contacts for transmission control

K Sneppen, BF Nielsen, RJ Taylor… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Increasing evidence indicates that superspreading plays a dominant role in COVID-19
transmission. Recent estimates suggest that the dispersion parameter k for severe acute …