Assessing the Association Between Social Gatherings and COVID-19 Risk Using Birthdays

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<p class="first" id="d9360733e117">Many policies designed to stop the spread of COVID-19 address formal gatherings, such as workplaces and dining locations. Informal social gatherings are a potentially important mode of SARS-CoV-2 transmission, but studying their role in transmission is challenged by data and methodological limitations; birthdays offer an opportunity to empirically quantify the potential role of small social gatherings in COVID-19 spread. </p>

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Title: JAMA Internal Medicine

Abbreviated Title: JAMA Intern Med

Publisher: American Medical Association (AMA)

ISSN (Print): 2168-6106

Publication date (Electronic): June 21 2021

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[1 ]RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California

[2 ]Castlight Health, San Francisco, California

[3 ]Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

[4 ]Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston

[5 ]National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.2915

PMC ID: 8218234

PubMed ID: 34152363

SO-VID: b0ba88a7-1c81-4e7d-a07b-b7ec5c66ddc3

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