Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Real-time tracking and prediction of COVID-19 infection using digital proxies of population mobility and mixing

  • Kathy Leung,
  • Joseph T. Wu,
  • Gabriel M. Leung

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21776-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Digital proxies of human mobility can be used to monitor social distancing, and therefore have potential to infer COVID-19 dynamics. Here, the authors integrate travel card data from Hong Kong into a transmission model and show that it can be used to track transmissibility in near real-time.