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

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kathy Leung, Joseph T. Wu, Gabriel M. Leung
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21776-2