The use of mobile phone data to inform analysis of COVID-19 pandemic epidemiology

KH Grantz, HR Meredith, DAT Cummings… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has heightened discussion of
the use of mobile phone data in outbreak response. Mobile phone data have been proposed …

Mobile phone data and COVID-19: Missing an opportunity?

N Oliver, E Letouzé, H Sterly, S Delataille… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
This paper describes how mobile phone data can guide government and public health
authorities in determining the best course of action to control the COVID-19 pandemic and in …

Mobile phone data for informing public health actions across the COVID-19 pandemic life cycle

N Oliver, B Lepri, H Sterly, R Lambiotte, S Deletaille… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The coronavirus 2019–2020 pandemic (COVID-19) poses unprecedented challenges for
governments and societies around the world (1). Nonpharmaceutical interventions have …

Evaluating the reliability of mobility metrics from aggregated mobile phone data as proxies for SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the USA: a population-based study

N Kishore, AR Taylor, PE Jacob, N Vembar… - The Lancet Digital …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background In early 2020, the response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic focused on non-
pharmaceutical interventions, some of which aimed to reduce transmission by changing …

Monitoring the COVID-19 epidemic with nationwide telecommunication data

J Persson, JF Parie… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
In response to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), governments have introduced
severe policy measures with substantial effects on human behavior. Here, we perform a …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 response in low-and middle-income countries: Don't overlook the role of mobile phone communication

LM Verhagen, R De Groot, CA Lawrence… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Estimates of health capacities in the context of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic indicate that most low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) are not operationally …

Limitations of using mobile phone data to model COVID-19 transmission in the USA

HS Badr, LM Gardner - The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2021 - thelancet.com
Mobile phone data provide a unique means to capture individual-level and population-level
movement patterns, which have become heavily relied upon to inform COVID-19 responses …

Age groups that sustain resurging COVID-19 epidemics in the United States

M Monod, A Blenkinsop, X Xi, D Hebert, S Bershan… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION After initial declines, in mid-2020, a sustained resurgence in the
transmission of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) occurred in the United States …

An early warning approach to monitor COVID-19 activity with multiple digital traces in near real time

NE Kogan, L Clemente, P Liautaud, J Kaashoek… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Given still-high levels of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) susceptibility and
inconsistent transmission-containing strategies, outbreaks have continued to emerge across …

Smartphone apps in the COVID-19 pandemic

JA Pandit, JM Radin, G Quer, EJ Topol - Nature Biotechnology, 2022 - nature.com
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, analog tools such as nasopharyngeal swabs
for PCR tests were center stage and the major prevention tactics of masking and physical …