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👶🦠 Young kids are sick all the time, but can our models capture that? What if the contact matrices we all use are dramatically under-counting contacts among young children? Check out our latest @anande.bsky.social @loosaraliyen.bsky.social @shauntruelove.bsky.social www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Quantifying infection-relevant contact patterns among young children in childcare settings in the United States
Age is a primary determinant of symptom severity and transmission patterns for many infectious diseases, motivating the use of age-stratified models parameterized by contact matrices. In the United St...