5 papers
Mechanics of Pandemics
Seba Contreras, Philipp Dönges, Laura Müller +24
COVID-19 and previous pandemics have shown how diseases can disrupt, threaten, and transform daily life. Since pathogens and societies are continuously evolving, every pandemic is…
TeraGram: A Structured Longitudinal Dataset of the Telegram Messenger
Anastasia Golovin, Sebastian B. Mohr, Arne I. Gottwald +5
Here we present a massive longitudinal dataset of public Telegram content, comprising over 5.9 billion messages dating from 2015 to 2025, collected from 712 thousand channels and g…
Household size can explain 40% of the variance in cumulative COVID-19 incidence across Europe
Seba Contreras, Philipp Dönges, Maciej Filinski +8
Household size impacts the spread of respiratory infectious diseases: Larger households tend to boost transmission by acquiring external infections more frequently and subsequently…
Optimizing infectious disease mitigation under dynamic conditions
Laura Müller, Fabio Sartori, Jonas Dehning +2
Mitigation measures are essential for controlling the spread of infectious diseases during pandemics and epidemics, but they impose considerable societal, individual, and economic…
Inferring Mobility Reductions from COVID-19 Disease Spread along the Urban-Rural Gradient
Sydney Paltra, Jonas Dehning, Viola Priesemann +1
The COVID-19 pandemic reshaped human mobility through policy interventions and voluntary behavioral changes. Mobility adaptions helped mitigate pandemic spread, however our knowled…