The epidemiological impact of the NHS COVID-19 app

2021/05/12 by Chris Wymant, Luca Ferretti, Daphne Tsallis +11 · 1 voice · 4 citations
Computer Science · Health Professions · Mathematics · #COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing #COVID-19 epidemiological studies #Mobile Health and mHealth Applications

paper · pdf · doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03606-z

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Citations

• Using Big Data to Emulate a Target Trial When a Randomized Trial Is Not Available: Table 1.
• Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 transmission suggests epidemic control with digital contact tracing
• Estimating the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in Europe

Cited by

• Digital measurement of SARS-CoV-2 transmission risk from 7 million contacts
• Drivers of epidemic dynamics in real time from daily digital COVID-19 measurements
• Epidemiological impacts of the NHS COVID-19 app in England and Wales throughout its first year
• The evolving usefulness of the Test-Negative Design in studying risk factors for COVID-19 due to changes in testing policy

Discussions

• We found that over its first three months of operation the NHS COVID-19 app reduced the number of cases by something in the region of 14% or 25%, depending on the method of attribution. doi.org/10.103 [bsky, 3 points, 1 comments]