Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

The impact of contact tracing and household bubbles on deconfinement strategies for COVID-19

  • Lander Willem,
  • Steven Abrams,
  • Pieter J. K. Libin,
  • Pietro Coletti,
  • Elise Kuylen,
  • Oana Petrof,
  • Signe Møgelmose,
  • James Wambua,
  • Sereina A. Herzog,
  • Christel Faes,
  • Philippe Beutels,
  • Niel Hens

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21747-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The COVID-19 pandemic caused many governments to impose policies restricting social interactions. Here, the authors implement an age-specific, individual-based model with data on social contacts for the Belgian population and investigate the effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions.