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

• Published in: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines
• 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 in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 2022
• Subjects: Social Contacts; Mass gathering; Hajj; Disease Transmission; Agent-Based Simulation; COVID-19; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Haram
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40794-022-00177-3; https://doaj.org/article/49ade6295783472db4f6fc9128d4cc0d

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...