Estimating social contacts in mass gatherings for disease outbreak prevention and management: case of Hajj pilgrimage

Estimating social contacts in mass gatherings for disease outbreak prevention and management: case of Hajj pilgrimage

Abstract Background Most mass gathering events have been suspended due to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. However, with vaccination rollout, whether and how to organize some of these mass gathering events arises as part of the pandemic recovery discussions, and this calls for decision support tools. The Ha...

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Main Authors: Mohammadali Tofighi, Ali Asgary, Ghassem Tofighi, Mahdi M. Najafabadi, Julien Arino, Amine Amiche, Ashrafur Rahman, Zachary McCarthy, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Edward Thommes, Laurent Coudeville, Martin David Grunnill, Lydia Bourouiba, Jianhong Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-09-01
Series:Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines
Subjects:
Social Contacts
Mass gathering
Hajj
Disease Transmission
Agent-Based Simulation
COVID-19
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40794-022-00177-3

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