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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 30.
Published in final edited form as: Influenza Other Respir Viruses. 2010 Mar;4(2):61–72. doi: 10.1111/j.1750-2659.2009.00122.x

Table 2.

Contacts per day for different individuals in the model

Location Individual Mean number of
contacts per day
Social network
Classroom Student 18 School
School outside of classroom Student 15 School
Outside of school Student 18 Community
Weekend activity Student 27 Community
Workplace (within office) Worker 6 Workplace
Workplace (outside office) Worker 3 Workplace
Community All 36 Community
Health care facility (with other co-workers within clinic,
emergency room, or ward)
HCW 3 Health care facility
Health care facility (with co-workers outside specific clinic,
emergency room, or ward)
HCW 6 Health care facility
Health care facility (with patients) HCW that sees patients 30 Health care facility

HCW, health care worker.