• Bmc Med · Sep 2021

    SOCRATES-CoMix: a platform for timely and open-source contact mixing data during and in between COVID-19 surges and interventions in over 20 European countries.

    • Frederik Verelst, Lisa Hermans, Sarah Vercruysse, Amy Gimma, Pietro Coletti, Jantien A Backer, Kerry L M Wong, James Wambua, Kevin van Zandvoort, Lander Willem, Laurens Bogaardt, Christel Faes, Christopher I Jarvis, Jacco Wallinga, W John Edmunds, Philippe Beutels, and Niel Hens.
    • Centre for Health Economics Research and Modelling Infectious Diseases, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
    • Bmc Med. 2021 Sep 29; 19 (1): 254254.

    BackgroundSARS-CoV-2 dynamics are driven by human behaviour. Social contact data are of utmost importance in the context of transmission models of close-contact infections.MethodsUsing online representative panels of adults reporting on their own behaviour as well as parents reporting on the behaviour of one of their children, we collect contact mixing (CoMix) behaviour in various phases of the COVID-19 pandemic in over 20 European countries. We provide these timely, repeated observations using an online platform: SOCRATES-CoMix. In addition to providing cleaned datasets to researchers, the platform allows users to extract contact matrices that can be stratified by age, type of day, intensity of the contact and gender. These observations provide insights on the relative impact of recommended or imposed social distance measures on contacts and can inform mathematical models on epidemic spread.ConclusionThese data provide essential information for policymakers to balance non-pharmaceutical interventions, economic activity, mental health and wellbeing, during vaccine rollout.© 2021. The Author(s).

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