Effect of risk status for severe COVID-19 on individual contact behaviour during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in 2020/2021-an analysis based on the German COVIMOD study.

Jasmin WaldeMadhav ChaturvediTom BergerAntonia BartzRobin KillewaldDamilola Victoria TomoriNicole RübsamenBerit LangeStefan ScholzMarina TreskovaKarolin BuckschChristopher I JarvisRafael MikolajczykAndré KarchVeronika K Jaeger

Published in: BMC infectious diseases (2023)

Over the course of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, there was a general reduction in contact numbers in the German population and also a differential response to contact restriction measures based on risk status for severe COVID-19. This differential response needs to be taken into account for parametrisations of mathematical models in a pandemic setting.

Keyphrases

sars cov
respiratory syndrome coronavirus
coronavirus disease
early onset