ArticleEpidemics2021
Social contact patterns among employees in 3 U.S. companies during early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, April to June 2020.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Relevance of social contact definitions for use in infectious disease transmission modeling: a systematic review and recommendations.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Pooled it
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- Social Contact Patterns in Rural and Urban Settings, Mozambique, 2021-2022.Emerging infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Racial disparities in Phase 1 COVID-19 vaccine shipments to Neighborhood sites in Pennsylvania by the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Changing social contact patterns among US workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: April 2020 to December 2021.Epidemics · 2023Article
- Estimation of Total Cost Required in Controlling COVID-19 Outbreaks by Financial Incentives.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Use of surveillance data to elucidate household clustering of SARS-CoV-2 in Fulton County, Georgia a major metropolitan area.Annals of epidemiology · 2022Article
- Factors influencing the decision to receive seasonal influenza vaccination among US corporate non-healthcare workers.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2022Article
- Nationally representative social contact patterns among U.S. adults, August 2020-April 2021.Epidemics · 2022Article
- Investigating the relationship between interventions, contact patterns, and SARS-CoV-2 transmissibility.Epidemics · 2022Article
- Nationally Representative Social Contact Patterns among U.S. adults, August 2020-April 2021.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2022Article
- Modeling serological testing to inform relaxation of social distancing for COVID-19 control.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Modeling serological testing to inform relaxation of social distancing for COVID-19 control.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
We measured contact patterns using online diaries for 304 employees of 3 U.S. companies working remotely. The median number of daily contacts was 2 (IQR 1-4); majority were conversation (55 %), occurred at home (64 %) and lasted >4 h (38 %). These data are crucial for modeling outbreak control among the workforces.
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