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Alcov2: a National Questionnaire Survey for Understanding the Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in French Households during First Lockdown

2026-02-24 epidemiology Title + abstract only
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We describe a fast, noninvasive, low-cost survey method designed to understand the mode of transmission of an emerging pathogen. It is inspired from the standard household prevalence survey consisting in sampling households and counting the total number of people infected in each household, but refines it with the aim of improving diagnosis and estimating more parameters of the model of intra-household transmission. The survey was carried out in May-June 2020, during part of the first national ...

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