SamenSlimOpen - Data-driven Simulation Games for the Evaluation and Prevention of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in Indoor Public Spaces and the Impact of Changing Compliance to Distancing Measures

  • Funded by Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMW)
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Grant number: 1.043E+13

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19
  • Start & end year

    2020
    2023
  • Funder

    Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMW)
  • Principal Investigator

    dr QA. ten Bosch
  • Research Location

    Netherlands
  • Lead Research Institution

    Wageningen University & Research
  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A
  • Research Category

    Epidemiological studies

  • Research Subcategory

    Disease transmission dynamics

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Unspecified

  • Vulnerable Population

    Unspecified

  • Occupations of Interest

    Unspecified

Abstract

Public indoor spaces are an important source of corona infections. Therefore, many measures are aimed at preventing infections in these spaces. In order to investigate which types of contacts in indoor spaces contribute most to the spread and how this can best be intervened, a virus spread model has been developed that models the behavior of people in indoor spaces in the presence or absence of measures and with different degrees of compliance. The models are informed by virological, epidemiological and crowd monitoring data. We have estimated where high-risk contacts occur in different types of spaces (restaurants, offices, train stations), which infection routes play the most important role in this and which measures are most effective in limiting infections, while maintaining economic activity. In addition, the model has been used to investigate the effect of different corona access cards, how this depends on the epidemiological situation as well as the degree of compliance in society.