Signal propagation in complex networks

P Ji, J Ye, Y Mu, W Lin, Y Tian, C Hens, M Perc, Y Tang… - Physics reports, 2023 - Elsevier
Signal propagation in complex networks drives epidemics, is responsible for information
going viral, promotes trust and facilitates moral behavior in social groups, enables the …

Human mobility data in the COVID-19 pandemic: characteristics, applications, and challenges

T Hu, S Wang, B She, M Zhang, X Huang… - … Journal of Digital …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The COVID-19 pandemic poses unprecedented challenges around the world. Many studies
have applied mobility data to explore spatiotemporal trends over time, investigate …

Context-specific emergence and growth of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant

JT McCrone, V Hill, S Bajaj, RE Pena, BC Lambert… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The SARS-CoV-2 Delta (Pango lineage B. 1.617. 2) variant of concern spread
globally, causing resurgences of COVID-19 worldwide,. The emergence of the Delta variant …

Can commercial trade represent the main indicator of the COVID-19 diffusion due to human-to-human interactions? A comparative analysis between Italy, France, and …

E Bontempi, M Coccia, S Vergalli, A Zanoletti - Environmental research, 2021 - Elsevier
The main goal of this study is to analyze the relation between commercial trade and
pandemic severity in society, in order to support new hypotheses which can explain …

Simple methods for early warnings of COVID-19 surges: Lessons learned from 21 months of wastewater and clinical data collection in Detroit, Michigan, United States

L Zhao, Y Zou, RE David, S Withington… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has drawn great attention since the Coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, not only due to its capability to circumvent the …

Resilience and recovery of public transport use during COVID-19

J Wang, J Huang, H Yang, D Levinson - Npj Urban Sustainability, 2022 - nature.com
To better understand how public transport use varied during the first year of COVID-19, we
define and measure travel behavior resilience. With trip records between November 2019 …

How to avoid a local epidemic becoming a global pandemic

NC Stenseth, R Schlatte, X Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Here, we combine international air travel passenger data with a standard epidemiological
model of the initial 3 mo of the COVID-19 pandemic (January through March 2020; toward …

Understanding the uneven spread of COVID-19 in the context of the global interconnected economy

D Tsiotas, V Tselios - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
The worldwide spread of the COVID-19 pandemic is a complex and multivariate process
differentiated across countries, and geographical distance is acceptable as a critical …

Are environmental pollution and biodiversity levels associated to the spread and mortality of COVID-19? A four-month global analysis

D Fernández, I Giné-Vázquez, I Liu, R Yucel… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract On March 12th, 2020, the WHO declared COVID-19 as a pandemic. The collective
impact of environmental and ecosystem factors, as well as biodiversity, on the spread of …

Early spread of COVID-19 in the air-polluted regions of eight severely affected countries

R Pansini, D Fornacca - Atmosphere, 2021 - mdpi.com
COVID-19 escalated into a pandemic posing several humanitarian as well as scientific
challenges. We here investigated the geographical character of the early spread of the …