Meera Chand
Meera Chand
@meerac.bsky.social
Infectious diseases, microbiology, virology, public health and particularly emerging infections & genomics @UKHSA
Reposted by Meera Chand
Got a number in mind?

A new pre-print by @lshtm.bsky.social colleagues surveyed 13,000 participants, and found it's about 9 per day in the current era.

It also looks at how social mixing varies with age, ethnicity and social economic status. Link to paper:
Post-pandemic social contact patterns in the United Kingdom: the Connect survey
Close-contact and respiratory infectious diseases are spread through social interactions, which were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and wider demographic and cultural changes. To estimate post-pand...
www.medrxiv.org
August 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM