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Contact network structure shaped pandemic transmission despite lockdowns

2026-02-09

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Human contact network structure fundamentally shapes infectious disease transmission and control. Most COVID-19 epidemic models assumed approximately homogeneous contact patterns, yet real-world networks are highly heterogeneous. We analysed 59,585 daily non-household contact reports from Germany's COVIMOD study (2020--2021) using a novel heavy-tail regression framework. Throughout the pandemic, contact distributi...

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beec2e82-1184-5656-b75e-7671b9f90eaa
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10.64898/2026.02.06.26345745
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