Epidemics
Social contact patterns derived from an epidemiological survey and GPS-based co-location data - A systematic comparison using parallel data collections during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany.
Huynh Thi Phuong, Janik Suer, Vitaly Belik, Alejandra Rincón Hidalgo, Andrzej K Jarynowski, Richard Pastor, Steven Schulz, Ashish Thampi, Chao Xu, Marlli Zambrano, Rafael Mikolajczyk, André Karch, Veronika K Jaeger, OptimAgent Consortium
Published: 202610.1016/j.epidem.2026.100886
Abstract
The parametrisation of contact behaviour is crucial for infectious disease transmission models. Contact information derived from self-reported surveys and from co-location in space and time (GPS-based) may reflect different dimensions of contact beha…
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