epidemics

New paper out: Germany’s fourth COVID-19 wave was mainly driven by the unvaccinated
With about 65% of its citizens vaccinated at the time, Germany experienced a large wave of COVID-19 in the fall of 2021, regionally overburdening the …
New paper out: Germany’s fourth COVID-19 wave was mainly driven by the unvaccinated
Biases in human mobility data impact epidemic modeling
F Schlosser, Vedran Sekara, D Brockmann, Manuel Garcia-Herranz
arXiv:2112.12521
Large-scale human mobility data is a key resource in data-driven policy making and across many scientific fields. Most recently, mobility data was …
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Biases in human mobility data impact epidemic modeling
Finding disease outbreak locations from human mobility data
EPJ Data Science
Finding the origin location of an infectious disease outbreak quickly is crucial in mitigating its further dissemination. Current methods to identify …
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Finding disease outbreak locations from human mobility data
New paper out: Finding disease outbreak locations from human mobility data
New paper out: Finding disease outbreak locations from human mobility data
New Monitor: Contact patterns during the Pandemic
New Monitor: Contact patterns during the Pandemic
Spreading Routes on a Global Scale
D Brockmann, Dirk Helbing
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Spreading Routes on a Global Scale
Complexity Explorables
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Saving human lives: What complexity science and information systems can contribute
D Helbing, D Brockmann, T Chadefaux, K Donnay, U Blanke, O Woolley-Meza, M Moussaid, A Johansson, J Krause, S Schutte, M Perc
Journal of statistical physics, 158 (3), 735--781
We discuss models and data of crowd disasters, crime, terrorism, war and disease spreading to show that conventional recipes, such as deterrence …
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The hidden geometry of complex, network-driven contagion phenomena
D Brockmann, D Helbing
Science 342 (6164), 1337-1342
The global spread of epidemics, rumors, opinions, and innovations are complex, network-driven dynamic processes. The combined multiscale nature and …
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The hidden geometry of complex, network-driven contagion phenomena
Natural human mobility patterns and spatial spread of infectious diseases
V Belik, T Geisel, D Brockmann
Physical Review X 1 (1), 011001
We investigate a model for spatial epidemics explicitly taking into account bidirectional movements between base and destination locations on …
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Natural human mobility patterns and spatial spread of infectious diseases