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One pathogen does not an epidemic make: A review of interacting contagions, diseases, beliefs, and stories
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Antoine Allard +15
From pathogens and computer viruses to genes and memes, contagion models have found widespread utility across the natural and social sciences. Despite their success and breadth of…
Preserving system activity while controlling epidemic spreading in adaptive temporal networks
Marco Mancastroppa, Alessandro Vezzani, Vittoria Colizza +1
Human behaviour strongly influences the spread of infectious diseases: understanding the interplay between epidemic dynamics and adaptive behaviours is essential to improve respons…
Limited data on infectious disease distribution exposes ambiguity in epidemic modeling choices
Laura Di Domenico, Eugenio Valdano, Vittoria Colizza
Traditional disease transmission models assume that the infectious period is exponentially distributed with a recovery rate fixed in time and across individuals. This assumption pr…
Estimates of the reproduction ratio from epidemic surveillance may be biased in spatially structured populations
Piero Birello, Michele Re Fiorentin, Boxuan Wang +2
Accurate estimates of the reproduction ratio are crucial to project infectious disease epidemic evolution and guide public health response. Here, we prove that estimates of the rep…
The effect of delayed awareness and fatigue on the efficacy of self-isolation in epidemic control
Giulia de Meijere, Vittoria Colizza, Eugenio Valdano +1
The isolation of infectious individuals is a key measure of public health for the control of communicable diseases. However, involving a strong perturbation of daily life, it often…
Epidemiological and public health requirements for COVID-19 contact tracing apps and their evaluation
Vittoria Colizza, Eva Grill, Rafael Mikolajczyk +10
Digital contact tracing is a public health intervention. It should be integrated with local health policy, provide rapid and accurate notifications to exposed individuals, and enco…