E)-F) Simulated time course of different clinical stages of infection under an intervention with efficacy of 100% (E) or 80% (F) at reducing external contacts, when household and external contacts have equal weight. Here we build a stochastic epidemic model to examine the effects of COVID-19 clinical progression and transmission network structure on the outcomes of social distancing interventions. Copyright: © 2021 Nande et al. With our baseline assumption that household and external contacts had equal weight, we observed that cases declined rapidly under very strong interventions (Fig 3E and 3H), while imperfect interventions (e.g. To examine these effects, we constructed more realistically-structured, age-segregated external contact networks. The larger the Top row: External contacts of individuals were unchanged after two households were merged, such that overall number of contacts increased. Other modeling studies have explored the impact of generalized relaxation of social distancing on second-wave scenarios [82–85]. These findings suggest that targeting demographic groups like essential workers, where pockets of infection might persist, with more aggressive cases-based measures and contact tracing may be necessary to reach elimination goals faster. Alternatively, we could randomly remove a fixed % of contacts, but the results are very similar (see Methods). The role of household transmission in the spread of COVID-19 is variable across settings. As before, we also tested the robustness of these results to details in the large-scale clustering of the network by using a metapopulation model that incorporates the notion of “neighborhoods” (see Methods). In this study we use a mathematical model to simulate the spread and control of COVID-19, tracking the different settings of person-to-person contact (e.g. We suggest limited conditions under which the formation of household “bubbles” can be safe. By varying the relative weight of household vs external contacts, our study examined a range of household secondary attack rates from ~10% to ~65%. Social distancing interventions (red X) reduce the rate of transmission and the generation of new infections. Plots show daily incidence (for a total population of 1 million). sorry we let you down. Please refer to your browser's Help pages for instructions. Supervision, A massive cohort study from Japan recently shone some light on this complexity; finding that the risk of household influenza transmission was highly dependent on household structure and on the familial relationship between the primary and secondary case [46]. Writing – review & editing, Roles different likelihood of transmission), due to for example different levels of physical contact or time spent together per day. Based on large-scale contact surveys and other modeling studies [20,21,25–27], we broke down external contacts into four different layers—school, work, social and community (Fig 5A). We found that the expected time to peak infections and deaths after a social distancing intervention was implemented could be increased dramatically when we accounted for household structure, and was sensitive to the relative importance of household and external contacts before and after the intervention (Fig 4). The confusion about these terms is mainly semantic and the terms calibration curve and standard curve are generally used interchangeably. We find that the strength of within-household transmission is a critical determinant of success, governing the timing and size of the epidemic peak, the rate of decline, individual risks of infection, and the success of partial relaxation measures. B) 90% of external connections are preferentially attached to individuals within their own neighborhood, creating more intermediate-scale clustering in the network. Also they transmit light further with fewer errors. For example, Klein et al found peak US national average reductions in both the radius of mobility and the number of events where device users came within near proximity of each other were about ~50%, whereas communing volume was reduced by ~75% [62,63]. We found that when the intervention efficacy was high, most outcomes were surprisingly not worse under this clustered adoption (Fig 5). Social distancing is the main tool used to control COVID-19, and involves reducing contacts that could potentially transmit infection with strategies like school closures, work-from-home policies, mask-wearing, or lockdowns. Under our parameter values, a 50% intervention “flattens the curve” but does not prevent spread, and incidence cases and deaths don’t peak until 13 and 15 weeks after the intervention, respectively. These results can be used to better predict the impact of future interventions to control COVID-19 or similar outbreaks. Solid line is mean and shaded areas are 5th and 95th percentile. F) Time to peak of different infection stages, measured as days post-intervention. Weeks after implementing strong interventions, many regions have continued to see increases in daily diagnoses and deaths. The overlap in symptoms with many endemic and milder respiratory infections—such as influenza, parainfluenza, respiratory syncytial virus, and seasonal coronaviruses—make syndromic identification of cases difficult. Like others, the data we use from these studies is the average number of daily contacts by age of each individual in the pair. In each layer, the degree distribution and level of clustering were chosen to match data. This stage lasts ~ 1 week and individuals are infectious for this duration. the amount of traffic processed on the transit gateway. Community and school connections occurred within local neighborhoods. It is designed for federal, state, and local government health professionals and private sector health professionals who are responsible for disease surveillance or investigation. Using the Query API is the most direct way to Delay to peak cases was longest in the intermediate regime where external and household contribution to transmission was approximately equal. Bar colors represent different relative weights of external contacts (compared to household contacts). The “community” layer represents any other contact not fitting in the other four categories. It is not possible to predict the effect of an intervention that differentially affects household and external contacts by simply estimating the proportional reduction in the total R0. We modeled this by allowing the weight of household contacts to increase during an intervention. Instead, later stages of infection are monitored. school closures, stay-at-home policies) reduce the reproductive ratio or the exponential growth rate of cases. With a 100% effective intervention, the final epidemic size is ~0.7%, but rises to ~7% with a 80% effective intervention (Fig 3G). In the absence of pharmaceutical interventions, social distancing is being used worldwide to curb the spread of COVID-19. Curmei et al’s review [44] attempts to collect all these estimates and correct them upwards by accounting for false negative rates of diagnostic tests and for asymptomatic infections, resulting in estimates between ~10–55%. Finally, nearly all previous estimates of R0 fit a randomly-mixing population (with or without age structure), whereas in our highly structured network population, higher R0 values are needed to achieve the same doubling time. We assumed that during a social distancing measure, school contacts were completely removed, and that work, social, and other contacts were reduced by an amount equal to the intervention efficacy. One factor is reporting delays, which may be especially long for deaths in certain regions. Google [57] and Apple [58] provide reports on mobility changes based on user locations sourced from their smartphone mapping apps, as does Cuebeq [59]. Data Availability: All data and code used in the paper is available on Github: https://github.com/alsnhll/COVID19NetworkSimulations. For an 80% effective intervention, the final epidemic size can be 5–10—fold higher than expected due to increased chance of within-household transmission. Writing – review & editing, Roles Epidemic final size is defined as the percent of the population who have recovered by day 300. While these data sources inform the number of contacts, the probability of infection depends both on the number of unique contacts and on the time spent together and the intensity of the contact, which can be represented by weights in the network. Secondly, household bubble formation should ideally be accompanied by a further decrease in contacts outside the house (for example, only one grocery trip per dual-family household instead of two) and a redistribution of the effective number of household contacts instead of allowing them to double (for example, by spending time with subsets of the dual household instead of all time as a complete group). Wellenius et al attempted to infer the association between these mobility reductions and the particular social distancing policies that caused them. The relatively high percentage of infected individuals who require hospitalization or critical care compared to seasonal respiratory infections has put an unprecedented burden on the healthcare systems of hard-hit regions. The Rigveda is the oldest known Vedic Sanskrit text. Under clustered adoption, the epidemic plateaued and took much longer to decline compared to the case of uniform adoption where decline began immediately. In all cases, intervention was started 43 days after the onset of the epidemic (first black dotted line) and was relaxed after two months (60 days, second black dotted line). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008684.g002. Here, the construction and use of calibration graphs or curves in daily practice of a laboratory will be discussed. School and work layers consisted of connections between individuals only belonging to the school-aged and working-aged groups respectively. So far our evaluations of social distancing measures have focused on population-level outcomes such as the timing of the epidemic peak and the overall fraction of the population infected. Some of these problems can be avoided by explicit use of mathematical models that take into account the prolonged clinical progression of COVID-19 (e.g. B-C) Visualizations of connections in the external layer of the two-layer transmission network with and without neighborhood clustering. The Rt value plotted for day t is calculated using timepoints before t only. Intervention is very effective at suppressing external transmission and so, even though household transmission continues during intervention it can not spill over between households. We applied standard procedures for calculating Rt [23] to the incidence data from our simulations, and using the time at which Rt first crossed the threshold of 1 as a measure of the delay, we found that the trends agreed with those reported for the epidemic peak (S8 Fig). Institute for Computational Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008684.g004. One limitation of these sorts of surveys is that they are “ego-centric”, meaning that they only inform the distribution of the number of contacts but not the higher order network structure, which can be important for infection spread [26,47]. We consider various scenarios for the efficacy of interventions in reducing contacts, heterogeneities in their adoption in different demographic groups, the relative role of transmission in different settings, and the timing of partial or complete relaxation of isolation measures. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008684.s008. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008684.s002. L) The percent of households which are “seeded” with infection at the time the intervention was implemented (i.e. following: A Connect SD-WAN/third-party network appliance, A peering connection with another transit gateway. For a less effective intervention, the difference in outcomes for the two deletion schemes was more prominent (S3 Fig). must create a static route in the transit gateway route table to point to the peering Enable transmission: Makes the transmission of data between NiFi instances active ... which means that only warnings and errors will be displayed in the UI. We show how the interaction between unmitigated households spread and residual external connections due to essential activities impacts individual risk and population infection levels. Age groups determined network membership. We did observe variable delays until deaths and hospitalizations began to increase again in our simulations, which was explained by the clinical progression times and the degree of relaxation (S7 Fig). The exact timings that we report here depend on the assumptions of our model, in particular, the average duration of each stage of infection (see S1 Text for details) as well as on the epidemic growth rate pre-intervention (it takes longer for epidemics that were growing faster to peak and begin declining). Yes We hope that by providing our code, researchers who are interested in specific contexts where these values may differ significantly can explore those scenarios. 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