ArticleScience advances2021
Anatomy of digital contact tracing: Role of age, transmission setting, adoption, and case detection.
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42 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The role of digital tools and emerging devices in COVID-19 contact tracing during the first 18 months of the pandemic: a systematic review.European journal of public health · 2024Pooled it
- Comparative effectiveness of contact tracing interventions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review.European journal of epidemiology · 2023Pooled it
- Characteristics and determinants of population acceptance of COVID-19 digital contact tracing: a systematic review.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2021Pooled it
- Quality and Adoption of COVID-19 Tracing Apps and Recommendations for Development: Systematic Interdisciplinary Review of European Apps.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Pooled it
- Impact of Digital Contact Tracing and Other Nonpharmaceutical Interventions on Pandemic Control: Microlevel, Behavior-Driven Agent-Based Model Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- The Role of Transparency in Digital Contact Tracing During COVID-19: Insights from an Expert Survey.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2026Article
- A comparison of contact patterns derived from the population structure in agent-based models and empirical contact survey data.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
- Network structure induced bias in estimates of intrinsic generation times.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
- Critical mobility in policy making for epidemic containment.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Preserving friendships in school contacts: An algorithm to construct synthetic temporal networks for epidemic modelling.PLoS computational biology · 2024Article
- Investigation of airborne spread of COVID-19 using a hybrid agent-based model: a case study of the UK.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Measuring the efficacy of a vaccine during an epidemic.PloS one · 2023Article
- Predicting COVID-19 pandemic waves including vaccination data with deep learning.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Characterizing the role of human behavior in the effectiveness of contact-tracing applications.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic testing rates determine the sensitivity of genomic surveillance programs.Nature genetics · 2023Article
- Understanding the impact of digital contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic.PLOS digital health · 2022Article
- Understanding Trust and Changes in Use After a Year With the NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing App in the United Kingdom: Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Article
- Privacy and contact tracing efficacy.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2022Article
- Adoption of Covid-19 contact tracing app by extending UTAUT theory: Perceived disease threat as moderator.Health policy and technology · 2022Article
- Analyzing the impact of a real-life outbreak simulator on pandemic mitigation: An epidemiological modeling study.Patterns (New York, N.Y.) · 2022Article
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Abstract
The efficacy of digital contact tracing against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic is debated: Smartphone penetration is limited in many countries, with low coverage among the elderly, the most vulnerable to COVID-19. We developed an agent-based model to precise the impact of digital contact tracing and household isolation on COVID-19 transmission. The model, calibrated on French population, integrates demographic, contact and epidemiological information to describe exposure and transmission of COVID-19. We explored realistic levels of case detection, app adoption, population immunity, and transmissibility. Assuming a reproductive ratio
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