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  • Accurate COVID-19 transmission modeling at live events is crucial for controlling outbreaks and informing attendees of personalized risks.
  • Existing models often overlook critical contextual factors like vaccination rates and disease prevalence, or fail to quantitatively assess transmission dynamics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To bridge the gap in COVID-19 risk assessment for live public events by developing informative risk metrics with uncertainty measures.
  • To provide a quantitative framework for evaluating transmission risks associated with gatherings.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a pipeline integrating three key components: modeling infectious cases, evaluating pre-event screening effectiveness, and simulating event transmission dynamics using Monte Carlo methods.
  • Utilized existing epidemiological models as a foundation for the new approach.

Main Results:

  • Applied the pipeline to a concert at the Royal Albert Hall, demonstrating risk dependency on prevalence, mask-wearing, and event duration.
  • Showcased how event transmission risk varied across different dates (August 2020, January 2021, March 2021), with significant underestimation of tail risk by relying solely on vaccination and antigen testing.

Conclusions:

  • The developed estimation pipeline facilitates contextualized risk assessment for live events by integrating available tools to estimate risk magnitude.
  • The model is adaptable for future events and accessible via an RShiny interface, with limitations and improvement avenues discussed.