Analysis of mobility data to build contact networks for COVID-19.

ABSTRACT: As social distancing policies and recommendations went into effect in response to COVID-19, people made rapid changes to the places they visit. These changes are clearly seen in mobility data, which records foot traffic using location trackers in cell phones. While mobility data is often used to extract the number of customers that visit a particular business or business type, it is the frequency and duration of concurrent occupancy at those sites that governs transmission. Understanding the way people interact at different locations can help target policies and inform contact tracing and prevention strategies. This paper outlines methods to extract interactions from mobility data and build networks that can be used in epidemiological models. Several measures of interaction are extracted:

SUBMITTER: Klise K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8049304 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature