3 papers
physics.soc-ph2026
Household Bubbling Strategies for Epidemic Control and Social Connectivity
L. D. Valdez, J. H. Peressutti
During the COVID-19 crisis, policymakers have implemented social bubble merging strategies, which allowed people from different households to meet and interact. Although these meas…
physics.soc-ph2025
Superexponential growth of epidemics in networks with cliques
L. D. Valdez
Many dynamic processes on complex networks, from disease outbreaks to cascading failures, can rapidly accelerate once a critical threshold is exceeded, potentially leading to sever…
q-bio.PE2023
Explosive epidemic transitions induced by quarantine fatigue
L. D. Valdez
Quarantine measures are one of the first lines of defense against the spread of infectious diseases. However, maintaining these measures over extended periods can be challenging du…