Quantifying contact patterns: development and characteristics of the British Columbia COVID-19 population mixing patterns survey (BC-Mix)

POSTER PRESENTER EMAIL CONTACT: prince.adu@bccdc.ca Assessing the impact of physical distancing measures on person-to-person contact can provide valuable information for refining control measures and help minimize both COVID-19-related disease burden and the related economic, social, and mental health impacts. Early detection of COVID-19 resurgences requires mechanisms for tracking precursors of transmission, including changes in social contacts, mixing patterns and physical distancing behaviours as well as early signals of a COVID-19 spread. Here, we describe the development the BC COVID-19 Population Mixing Patterns survey (BC-Mix), an ongoing online survey to monitor and assess social contact behaviours and mixing patterns in BC, Canada. TEAM : Prince A. Adu, Mawuena Binka, Bushra Mahmood, Dahn Jeong, Terri Buller-Taylor, Makuza Jean Damascene, Sarafa Iyaniwura, Notice Ringa, Héctor Alexander Velásquez García, Stanley Wong, Amanda Yu, Sofia Bartlett, James Wilton, Mike A. Irvine, Michael Otterstatter, Naveed Z. Janjua

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