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Social behaviours and contact patterns across the 2020/21, 2021/22 and 2022/23 winter seasons in the UK, and associations with symptoms

2025-08-07 epidemiology Title + abstract only
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The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic had a large impact on social mixing in the UK. This study analysed data from the Office for National Statistics Coronavirus Infection Survey to examine changes in contact patterns and self-reported symptoms through three winter seasons from 2020 to 2023. Using Generalised Additive Models, we estimated levels of various contacts over time, accounting for age, sex, ethnicity, and deprivation percentile, and compared these to trends in self-reported symptoms. Our estimates i...

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