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Why COVID-19 models should incorporate the network of social interactions

2020-04-06

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The global spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is overwhelming many health-care systems. As a result, epidemiological models are being used to inform policy on how to effectively deal with this pandemic. The majority of existing models assume random diffusion but do not take into account differences in the amount of interactions between individuals, i.e. the underlying human interaction network, whose st...

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Literature Corpus work: c0b57336-3e16-5244-a2a8-aadfab970a25
DOI: 10.1101/2020.04.02.20050468

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