The best way to keep Covid-19 cases out of businesses and schools, while maintaining some in-person presence, is to create two rotating groups, a French study showed on Sept 2 (2021). They then used the networks to simulate the spread of SARS-CoV-2 virus from a single case, testing what method of partial teleworking would most efficiently mitigate an outbreak. They looked at scenarios in which an entire population would alternate its presence daily or weekly, as well as scenarios in which populations would be divided into two groups rotating daily or weekly. For all three settings, two groups rotating weekly work best to slow transmission of an infection, the study published in the journal PLOS Computational Biology concluded. The researchers used information on real-world interactions between individuals and simulated the spread of SARS-CoV-2 virus using known information about the virus’ behaviour.

Source: The Star September 04, 2021 22:41 UTC