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Continuing to be Cautious: Japanese Contact Patterns during the COVID-19 Pandemic and their Association with Public Health Recommendations

2025-04-21

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Despite implementing no lockdowns and having a large elderly population, Japan had a low mortality rate due to COVID-19 compared to Europe and North America. The extent to which policies impacted person-to-person contact remains unclear. In this study, we examined changes in contact patterns and their association with behaviors and governmental recommendations in Japan during the pandemic. Ten social contact surve...

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Literature Corpus work: 05d8c9c8-edbf-5a2a-9452-95eb7a356597
DOI: 10.1101/2025.04.17.25326019

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