But human contact at work is essential for me.
Abbreviations: odds ratio, OR; confidence interval, CI. aExposed category includes participants who reported direct contact outside of work and/or indirect contact at work; no participant reported direct contact at work.
Seven published studies have examined parental social contact at work and the risk of childhood leukaemia, and the results have been inconsistent (Roman et al, 1994; Kinlen, 1997; Fear et al, 1999, 2005; Kinlen and Bramald, 2001; Kinlen et al, 2002; Pearce et al, 2004).
Put all your contact info there, including your home address, home and business phone numbers (unless you don't want to be contacted at work), and cell phone number.
To attribute the contacts with that person to a specific setting, we used the following hierarchy: contacts at home > contacts at work > contacts at school > contacts in leisure time > contacts in other place > contacts in transportation.
In some countries contacts at work and in Germany also contacts at school were recorded only as aggregate numbers if they exceeded a certain threshold.
We identified seven distinct contact profiles: respondents having (1) mixed: contacts predominantly at school, during transportation and leisure time, (2) contacts during leisure time, (3) contacts mainly in the household (large family), (4) contacts at work, (5) contacts solely at school, (6) contacts in other places and finally (7) respondents having a low number of contacts in any setting.
The US government proposes pandemic influenza mitigation guidance that includes isolation and antiviral treatment of ill persons, voluntary household member quarantine and antiviral prophylaxis, social distancing of individuals, school closure, reduction of contacts at work, and prioritized vaccination.
In Germany, Netherlands and Belgium if participants had many contacts at work or at school (>10 in NL and DE and >20 in BE) they were asked not to record them separately in the diary but to only provide a general estimate of the number of those contacts.
For a 1918-like pandemic, the best strategy minimizes illness to <1% of the population and combines network-based (e.g. school closure, social distancing of all with adults' contacts at work reduced), and case-based measures (e.g. antiviral treatment of the ill and prophylaxis of household members).
