Human mobility impacts the transmission of common respiratory viruses: A modeling study of the Seattle metropolitan area

Abstract Many studies have used mobile device location data to model SARS-CoV-2 dynamics, yet relationships between mobility behavior and endemic respiratory pathogens are less understood. We studied the impacts of human mobility on the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and 16 endemic viruses in Seattle over a 4-year period, 2018-2022. Before 2020, school-related foot traffic and large-scale population movements preceded seasonal outbreaks of endemic viruses. Pathogen circulation dropped substantially after the initiation of stay-at-home orders in March 2020. During this period, mobility was a positive, leading indicator of transmission of all endemic viruses and lagged SARS-CoV-2 activity. Mobility was briefly predictive of SARS-CoV-2 transmission when restrictions relaxed in summer 2020 but associations weakened in subsequent waves. The rebound of endemic viruses was heterogeneously timed but exhibited stronger relationships with mobility than SARS-CoV-2. Mobility is most predictive of respiratory virus transmission during periods of dramatic behavioral change, and, to a lesser extent, at the beginning of epidemic waves.Teaser:Human mobility patterns predict the transmission dynamics of common respiratory viruses in pre- and post-pandemic years..

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Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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bioRxiv.org - (2023) vom: 04. Nov. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2023

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Perofsky, Amanda C. [VerfasserIn]
Hansen, Chelsea [VerfasserIn]
Burstein, Roy [VerfasserIn]
Boyle, Shanda [VerfasserIn]
Prentice, Robin [VerfasserIn]
Marshall, Cooper [VerfasserIn]
Reinhart, David [VerfasserIn]
Capodanno, Ben [VerfasserIn]
Truong, Melissa [VerfasserIn]
Schwabe-Fry, Kristen [VerfasserIn]
Kuchta, Kayla [VerfasserIn]
Pfau, Brian [VerfasserIn]
Acker, Zack [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Jover [VerfasserIn]
Sibley, Thomas R. [VerfasserIn]
McDermot, Evan [VerfasserIn]
Rodriguez-Salas, Leslie [VerfasserIn]
Stone, Jeremy [VerfasserIn]
Gamboa, Luis [VerfasserIn]
Han, Peter D. [VerfasserIn]
Adler, Amanda [VerfasserIn]
Waghmare, Alpana [VerfasserIn]
Jackson, Michael L. [VerfasserIn]
Famulare, Mike [VerfasserIn]
Shendure, Jay [VerfasserIn]
Bedford, Trevor [VerfasserIn]
Chu, Helen Y. [VerfasserIn]
Englund, Janet A. [VerfasserIn]
Starita, Lea M. [VerfasserIn]
Viboud, Cécile [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

570
Biology

doi:

10.1101/2023.10.31.23297868

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XBI041400364