Lockdown related travel behavior undermines the containment of SARS-CoV-2
Published in MedRxiv, 2020.10.22.20217752
October 26, 2020 by Kishore, N., Kahn, R., Martinez, P. P., Salazar, P. M. D., Mahmud, A. S., & Buckee, C. O.
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Mobility Data and the Limits of Data Protection Frameworks
October 7, 2020 by Abhishek Bhatia
The near real-time information about human movement provided by aggregated population mobility data has tremendous potential to help refine interventions when appropriate legal, organizational, and computational safeguards are in place. As the private sector, policymakers, and academia work together to leverage novel sources of data to track the spread of the pandemic, Randall Harp, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, and Juniper Lovato from the University of Vermont argue that anonymization at the individual level is insufficient– the notion of privacy should extend to communities as well.
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The use of mobile phone data to inform analysis of COVID-19 pandemic epidemiology
Published in Nature Communications, 11(1), 4961
September 30, 2020 by Grantz, K. H., Meredith, H. R., Cummings, D. A. T., Metcalf, C. J. E., Grenfell, B. T., Giles, J. R., Mehta, S., Solomon, S., Labrique, A., Kishore, N., Buckee, C. O., & Wesolowski, A.
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Reductions in commuting mobility correlate with geographic differences in SARS-CoV-2 prevalence in New York City
Published in Nature Communications, 11(1), 4674
September 16, 2020 by Kissler, S. M., Kishore, N., Prabhu, M., Goffman, D., Beilin, Y., Landau, R., Gyamfi-Bannerman, C., Bateman, B. T., Snyder, J., Razavi, A. S., Katz, D., Gal, J., Bianco, A., Stone, J., Larremore, D., Buckee, C. O., & Grad, Y. H.
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Government Access to Mobile Phone Data for Contact Tracing- The Brennan Center for Justice
by Abhishek Bhatia
The Brennan Center for Justice is a nonpartisan law and policy institute that conducts rigorous research to identify problems and provide in-depth empirical findings and compelling analyses of pressing legal and policy issues.
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Participatory syndromic surveillance as a tool for tracking COVID-19 in Bangladesh
Published in MedRxiv, 2020.08.28.20183905
September 1, 2020 by Mahmud, A. S., Chowdhury, S., Sojib, K. H., Chowdhury, A., Quader, M. T., Paul, S., Saidy, M. S., Uddin, R., Engo-Monsen, K., & Buckee, C. O.
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COVID-19 care in India: The course to self-reliance.
Published in The Lancet Global Health, 8(11), e1359–e1360
August 24, 2020 by Balsari, S., Sange, M., & Udwadia, Z.
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Digital Mobility Data, Physical Distancing, and COVID-19 in Syracuse
by Jennifer Chan
Syracuse is a modest sized city of just over 140,000 people in upstate New York. It sits within the heart of the Finger Lakes region, not far from Lake Ontario. Although far from the worst hit areas of New York state by COVID-19, Syracuse saw alarming increases in cases and deaths during the initial wave of the pandemic.
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Case Study: Using Facebook Data to Monitor Adherence to Stay-at-home Orders in Colorado and Utah
Published in MedRxiv, 2020.06.04.20122093
July 30, 2020 by Layer, R. M., Fosdick, B., Bradshaw, M., Larremore, D. B., & Doherty, P.
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Food Security and Human Mobility During the COVID-19 Lockdown
Published in Social Science Research Network (Scholarly Paper ID 3600376)
May 15, 2020 by Choudhury, P., Koo, W. W., Li, X., Kishore, N., Balsari, S., & Khanna, T.
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Wrong but Useful — What COVID-19 Epidemiologic Models Can and Cannot Tell Us
Published in The New England Journal of Medicine; 383:303-305, DOI
May 15, 2020 by Inga Holmdahl, Caroline Buckee
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Mobility Data Analysis and Application in the United Kingdom
by Abhishek Bhatia
The MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis (MRC GIDA) at Imperial College London is an international resource and centre of excellence for research and capacity building on the epidemiological analysis and modelling of infectious diseases, and to undertake applied collaborative work with national and international agencies to support policy planning and response operations against infectious disease threats.
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Which Covid-19 Data Can You Trust?
Published in Harvard Business Review
May 8, 2020 by Satchit Balsari, Caroline Buckee, Tarun Khanna
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Mobility Data Essential to Stopping COVID-19, Reopening Cities and Counties
April 20, 2020 by Andrew Schroeder
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Aggregated mobility data could help fight COVID-19
Published in Science (New York, N.Y.), 368(6487), 145–146
April 10, 2020 by Buckee, C. O., Balsari, S., Chan, J., Crosas, M., Dominici, F., Gasser, U., Grad, Y. H., Grenfell, B., Halloran, M. E., Kraemer, M. U. G., Lipsitch, M., Metcalf, C. J. E., Meyers, L. A., Perkins, T. A., Santillana, M., Scarpino, S. V., Viboud, C., Wesolowski, A., & Schroeder, A.
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Improving epidemic surveillance and response: Big data is dead, long live big data
Published in The Lancet Digital Health, 2(5), e218–e220
March 17, 2020 by Buckee, C.
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Using predicted imports of 2019-nCoV cases to determine locations that may not be identifying all imported cases
February 11, 2020 by Martinez de Salazar Munoz, P., Niehus, R., Taylor, A., Buckee, C., & Lipsitch, M.
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