Human mobility: Models and applications

H Barbosa, M Barthelemy, G Ghoshal, CR James… - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
Recent years have witnessed an explosion of extensive geolocated datasets related to
human movement, enabling scientists to quantitatively study individual and collective …

Mathematical models to characterize early epidemic growth: A review

G Chowell, L Sattenspiel, S Bansal, C Viboud - Physics of life reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
There is a long tradition of using mathematical models to generate insights into the
transmission dynamics of infectious diseases and assess the potential impact of different …

Role of transport during outbreak of infectious diseases: evidence from the past

D Muley, M Shahin, C Dias, M Abdullah - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
The outbreak of infectious diseases affects people's lifestyles significantly, as they undertake
fewer outdoor activities as a protective measure and to follow government orders of …

State-level variation of initial COVID-19 dynamics in the United States

ER White, L Hébert-Dufresne - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
During an epidemic, metrics such as R 0, doubling time, and case fatality rates are important
in understanding and predicting the course of an epidemic. However, if collected over …

The effect of the definition of 'pandemic'on quantitative assessments of infectious disease outbreak risk

BJ Singer, RN Thompson, MB Bonsall - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
In the early stages of an outbreak, the term 'pandemic'can be used to communicate about
infectious disease risk, particularly by those who wish to encourage a large-scale public …

Spreading processes in multiplex metapopulations containing different mobility networks

D Soriano-Paños, L Lotero, A Arenas… - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
We propose a theoretical framework for the study of spreading processes in structured
metapopulations, with heterogeneous agents, subjected to different recurrent mobility …

Effect of individual behavior on epidemic spreading in activity-driven networks

A Rizzo, M Frasca, M Porfiri - Physical Review E, 2014 - APS
In this work we study the effect of behavioral changes of individuals on the propagation of
epidemic diseases. Specifically, we consider a susceptible-infected-susceptible model over …

Epidemic spreading in modular time-varying networks

M Nadini, K Sun, E Ubaldi, M Starnini, A Rizzo… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
We investigate the effects of modular and temporal connectivity patterns on epidemic
spreading. To this end, we introduce and analytically characterise a model of time-varying …

Forecasting COVID-19-associated hospitalizations under different levels of social distancing in Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy: results from an …

C Reno, J Lenzi, A Navarra, E Barelli, D Gori… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was identified in Wuhan, China, in
December 2019. As of 17 April 2020, more than 2 million cases of COVID-19 have been …

Spatial resource allocation for emerging epidemics: A comparison of greedy, myopic, and dynamic policies

EF Long, E Nohdurft, S Spinler - Manufacturing & Service …, 2018 - pubsonline.informs.org
Rapidly evolving infectious disease epidemics, such as the 2014 West African Ebola
outbreak, pose significant health threats and present challenges to the global health …