Elsevier

Epidemics

Volume 36, September 2021, 100481
Epidemics

Short Communication
Social contact patterns among employees in 3 U.S. companies during early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, April to June 2020

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Highlights

  • Social contact data for use in designing infection control measures in US companies.

Abstract

We measured contact patterns using online diaries for 304 employees of 3 U.S. companies working remotely. The median number of daily contacts was 2 (IQR 1-4); majority were conversation (55 %), occurred at home (64 %) and lasted >4 h (38 %). These data are crucial for modeling outbreak control among the workforces.

Keywords

Infectious diseases
Social contact surveys
Social mixing
Social contact patterns

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1

These first authors contributed equally to this article.

2

These authors were co–principal investigators.