Critical mobility in policy making for epidemic containment.

ABSTRACT: When considering airborne epidemic spreading in social systems, a natural connection arises between mobility and epidemic contacts. As individuals travel, possibilities to encounter new people either at the final destination or during the transportation process appear. Such contacts can lead to new contagion events. In fact, mobility has been a crucial target for early non-pharmaceutical containment measures against the recent COVID-19 pandemic, with a degree of intensity ranging from public transportation line closures to regional, city or even home confinements. Nonetheless, quantitative knowledge on the relationship between mobility-contagions and, consequently, on the efficiency of containment measures remains elusive. Here we introduce an agent-based model with a simple interaction be

SUBMITTER: Moreno Lopez JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11761483 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature