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  • Network Science
  • Public Health Policy

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  • COVID-19 pandemic necessitated infection control measures like lockdowns.
  • Long-term lockdowns are economically unsustainable.
  • Need for flexible policies to limit transmission without extensive quarantine.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Analyze dismantled community mobility structures during the COVID-19 outbreak in the US.
  • Identify high-risk contagion areas and deviations from administrative boundaries.
  • Design a multi-level quarantine process informed by mobility patterns.

Main Methods:

  • Applied Louvain method with modularity optimization to weekly mobile device location data (February-May 2020).
  • Utilized multi-scale community detection incorporating confirmed case locations.
  • Analyzed individual movement patterns to build mobility networks.

Main Results:

  • Identified natural break points in mobility patterns and high-risk contagion areas at three scales.
  • Observed community structures deviating from administrative boundaries.
  • Highlighted the importance of understanding cross-boundary movement for effective containment.

Conclusions:

  • Policies assuming containment within administrative boundaries are insufficient.
  • A multi-level quarantine process accounting for mobility heterogeneity is proposed.
  • Contact tracing and quarantine informed by community mobility structures are crucial for high-case communities.