Social and behavioural factors are critical to the emergence, spread and containment of
human disease, and are key determinants of the course, duration and outcomes of disease …

Background Emergency school closures are often used as public health interventions during
infectious disease outbreaks to minimise the spread of infection. However, if children …

The full societal impact COVID-19 pandemic is laid bare in urban mobility patterns. This
research explored the recently published data on the operation of subway and bike share …

There is a continuing debate on relative benefits of various mitigation and suppression
strategies aimed to control the spread of COVID-19. Here we report the results of agent …

Background This paper looks into the impact of the recent COVID-19 epidemic on the daily
mobility of people. Existing research into the epidemic travel patterns points at transport as a …

Objective To study the US public's health behaviors, attitudes, and policy opinions about
COVID-19 in the earliest weeks of the national health crisis (March 20–23, 2020). Method …

Social distancing and isolation have been widely introduced to counter the COVID-19
pandemic. Adverse social, psychological and economic consequences of a complete or …

The rapid spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has become a global threat
affecting almost all countries in the world. As countries reach the infection peak, it is planned …

Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a novel computational methodology for representing the
behavior of individuals in order to study social phenomena. Its use is rapidly growing in …

Recent years have witnessed an explosion of extensive geolocated datasets related to
human movement, enabling scientists to quantitatively study individual and collective …