The Smartphone Pandemic: How Big Tech and public health authorities partner in the digital response to Covid-19

KT Storeng, A de Bengy Puyvallée - Global Public Health, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Digital technologies harnessed through smartphones have been deployed widely to support
the response to Covid-19 internationally, often through partnerships between 'Big tech'and …

Early in the epidemic: impact of preprints on global discourse about COVID-19 transmissibility

MS Majumder, KD Mandl - The lancet global health, 2020 - thelancet.com
Since it was first reported by WHO in Jan 5, 2020, over 80 000 cases of a novel coronavirus
disease (COVID-19) have been diagnosed in China, with exportation events to nearly 90 …

Maintaining face mask use before and after achieving different COVID-19 vaccination coverage levels: a modelling study

SM Bartsch, KJ O'Shea, KL Chin, U Strych… - The Lancet Public …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Face mask wearing has been an important part of the response to the COVID-
19 pandemic. As vaccination coverage progresses in countries, relaxation of such practices …

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 …

F Verelst, L Hermans, S Vercruysse, A Gimma, P Coletti… - BMC medicine, 2021 - Springer
Background SARS-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 …

Corona Larona: A 2.5 D Mobile Game Advocating COVID-19 Safety Protocols and Mitigation Strategies

LPT Cortes, SKT Tandayu, KRR Villan… - 2022 IEEE 14th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Governments and health agencies around the world have been at the forefront of managing
the COVID-19 pandemic. To control the spread of the outbreak, mandatory safety protocols …

[HTML][HTML] Motivations and limits for COVID-19 policy compliance in Germany and Switzerland

BM Zimmermann, A Fiske, S McLennan… - … Journal of Health …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: In contrast to neighboring countries, German and Swiss authorities refrained
from general curfews during the first pandemic wave in spring 2020, calling for solidarity and …

Covid-19 infection-induced neuromyelitis optica: a case report

M Batum, A Kisabay Ak, H Mavioğlu - International Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (Covid-19) can infect the respiratory
system, as well as the central, peripheral nervous system, and muscles, leading to …

Adhering to COVID‐19 health guidelines: Examining demographic and psychological predictors of adherence

B Bailey, ML Whelen, DR Strunk - Applied Psychology: Health …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The effort to limit the spread of the coronavirus (COVID‐19) has relied heavily on the general
public's compliance with health guidelines limiting social contact and mitigating risk when …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of vaccination, border testing, and quarantine requirements on the risk of COVID-19 in New Zealand: A modelling study

N Steyn, A Lustig, SC Hendy, RN Binny… - Infectious Disease …, 2022 - Elsevier
We couple a simple model of quarantine and testing strategies for international travellers
with a model for transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in a partly vaccinated population. We use this …

Assessment of quarantine understanding and adherence to lockdown measures during the COVID-19 pandemic in Palestine: community experience and evidence for …

H Al Zabadi, N Yaseen, T Alhroub… - Frontiers in Public …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: Containment of the coronavirus pandemic relied extensively on the
combination of early implementation of quarantine and massive behavioral changes to …