Changes in contact patterns shape the dynamics of the COVID-19 outbreak in China

• Published in: Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Vol. 368; no. 6498; pp. 1481 - 1486
• Main Authors: Zhang, Juanjuan, Litvinova, Maria, Liang, Yuxia, Wang, Yan, Wang, Wei, Zhao, Shanlu, Wu, Qianhui, Merler, Stefano, Viboud, Cécile, Vespignani, Alessandro, Ajelli, Marco, Yu, Hongjie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States The American Association for the Advancement of Science 26.06.2020; American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Age; Age Factors; Aged; Behavior; Betacoronavirus; Child; Child, Preschool; China - epidemiology; Closures; Communicable Disease Control; Confidence intervals; Contact Tracing; Coronaviridae; Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology; Coronavirus Infections - prevention & control; Coronavirus Infections - transmission; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Disease control; Disease Outbreaks; Disease Susceptibility; Disease transmission; Epidemics; Epidemiology; Female; Households; Humans; Infant; Infections; Male; Medicine; Middle Aged; Models, Theoretical; Outbreaks; Pandemics; Pandemics - prevention & control; Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology; Pneumonia, Viral - prevention & control; Pneumonia, Viral - transmission; Polls & surveys; Preempting; Respiratory diseases; SARS-CoV-2; School Closing; School closures; Schools; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Social distancing; Social interactions; Viral diseases; Viruses; Workplace; Young Adult; China

The coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has brought tighter restrictions on the daily lives of millions of people, but we do not yet understand what measures are the most effective. Zhang et al. modeled virus transmission in Wuhan, China, in February 2020, investigating the effects of interventions...