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Changing travel patterns in China during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic
Understanding changes in human mobility in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic is crucial for assessing the impacts of travel restrictions designed to reduce disease spread. Here, relying on data from mainland China, we investigate the spatio-temporal characteristics of human mobility between...
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7538915/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33024096 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18783-0 |
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author | Gibbs, Hamish Liu, Yang Pearson, Carl A. B. Jarvis, Christopher I. Grundy, Chris Quilty, Billy J. Diamond, Charlie Eggo, Rosalind M. |
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description | Understanding changes in human mobility in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic is crucial for assessing the impacts of travel restrictions designed to reduce disease spread. Here, relying on data from mainland China, we investigate the spatio-temporal characteristics of human mobility between 1st January and 1st March 2020, and discuss their public health implications. An outbound travel surge from Wuhan before travel restrictions were implemented was also observed across China due to the Lunar New Year, indicating that holiday travel may have played a larger role in mobility changes compared to impending travel restrictions. Holiday travel also shifted healthcare pressure related to COVID-19 towards locations with lower healthcare capacity. Network analyses showed no sign of major changes in the transportation network after Lunar New Year. Changes observed were temporary and did not lead to structural reorganisation of the transportation network during the study period. |
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spelling | pubmed-75389152020-10-19 Changing travel patterns in China during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic Gibbs, Hamish Liu, Yang Pearson, Carl A. B. Jarvis, Christopher I. Grundy, Chris Quilty, Billy J. Diamond, Charlie Eggo, Rosalind M. Nat Commun Article Understanding changes in human mobility in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic is crucial for assessing the impacts of travel restrictions designed to reduce disease spread. Here, relying on data from mainland China, we investigate the spatio-temporal characteristics of human mobility between 1st January and 1st March 2020, and discuss their public health implications. An outbound travel surge from Wuhan before travel restrictions were implemented was also observed across China due to the Lunar New Year, indicating that holiday travel may have played a larger role in mobility changes compared to impending travel restrictions. Holiday travel also shifted healthcare pressure related to COVID-19 towards locations with lower healthcare capacity. Network analyses showed no sign of major changes in the transportation network after Lunar New Year. Changes observed were temporary and did not lead to structural reorganisation of the transportation network during the study period. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7538915/ /pubmed/33024096 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18783-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Gibbs, Hamish Liu, Yang Pearson, Carl A. B. Jarvis, Christopher I. Grundy, Chris Quilty, Billy J. Diamond, Charlie Eggo, Rosalind M. Changing travel patterns in China during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic |
title | Changing travel patterns in China during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | Changing travel patterns in China during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | Changing travel patterns in China during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Changing travel patterns in China during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | Changing travel patterns in China during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | changing travel patterns in china during the early stages of the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7538915/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33024096 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18783-0 |
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