Mixing patterns

This page list all our work on Covid-19 mixing patterns.

Projects

Status:

Projecting contact matrices in 177 geographical regions: an update and comparison with empirical data for the COVID-19 era

Status
Paper published at journal
First online
13 August 2020
Last update
08 June 2026

We update the synthetic contact matrices with the most recent data, comparing them to measured contact matrices, and develop customised contact matrices for rural and urban settings. We use these to explore the effects of physical distancing interventions for the COVID-19 pandemic in a transmission model.

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The impact of local and national restrictions in response to COVID-19 on social contacts in the England: a longitudinal natural experiment.

Status
Paper published at journal
First online
19 October 2020
Last update
19 February 2021

We present the analyses of the impact of national and local restrictions on the number of setting-specific contacts that people have prior to and during the restrictions from an ongoing survey (CoMix) which tracks social contact behaviour during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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