covid-19

Evaluation of Contact-Tracing Policies Against the Spread of SARS- CoV-2 in Austria– An Agent-Based Simulation

Background: Many countries have already gone through several infection waves and mostly managed to successfully stop the exponential spread of SARS-CoV-2 through bundles of restrictive measures. Still, the danger of further waves of infections is …

Evaluation of undetected cases during the COVID-19 epidemic in Austria

Background Knowing the number of undetected cases of COVID-19 is important for a better understanding of the spread of the disease. This study analyses the temporal dynamic of detected vs. undetected cases to provide guidance for the interpretation …

Synthetic Reproduction and Augmentation of COVID-19 Case Reporting Data by Agent-Based Simulation

We generate synthetic data documenting COVID-19 cases in Austria by the means of an agent-based simulation model. The model simulates the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in a statistical replica of the population and reproduces typical patient …

Behavioral gender differences are reinforced during the COVID-19 crisis

Behavioral gender differences are known to exist for a wide range of human activities including the way people communicate, move, provision themselves, or organize leisure activities. Using mobile phone data from 1.2 million devices in Austria (15% …

The impact of COVID-19 on relative changes in aggregated mobility using mobile-phone data

Evaluating relative changes leads to additional insights that would remain hidden when only evaluating absolute changes. We analyze a dataset describing the mobility of mobile phones in Austria before, during COVID-19 lock-down measures until …

Country-wide mobility changes observed using mobile phone data during COVID-19 pandemic

In March 2020, the Austrian government introduced a widespread lock-down in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on subjective impressions and anecdotal evidence, Austrian public and private life came to a sudden halt. Here we assess the effect …