Instruct: Identify the main category of Medrxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Tracing contacts to evaluate the transmission of COVID-19 from highly exposed individuals in public transportation We investigate, through a data-driven contact tracing model, the transmission of COVID-19 inside buses during distinct phases of the pandemic in a large Brazilian city. From this microscopic approach, we recover the networks of close contacts within consecutive time windows. A longitudinal comparison is then performed by upscaling the traced contacts with the transmission computed from a mean-field compartmental model for the entire city. Our results show that the effective reproduction numbers inside the buses, Rebus, and in the city, Recity, followed a compatible behavior during the first wave of the local outbreak. Moreover, by distinguishing the close contacts of healthcare workers in the buses, we discovered that their transmission, Rehealth, during the same period, was systematically higher than Rebus. This result reinforces the need for special public transportation policies for highly exposed groups of people.
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The categories of this paper are: ophthalmology
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The categories of this paper are: informatics
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The categories of this paper are: rheumatology
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The categories of this paper are: pediatrics
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The categories of this paper are: occupational
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The categories of this paper are: imaging
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The categories of this paper are: reproductive
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The categories of this paper are: health
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The categories of this paper are: allergy
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The categories of this paper are: therapy
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The categories of this paper are: addiction
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The categories of this paper are: nursing
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The categories of this paper are: neurology
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The categories of this paper are: physical