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New paper out: Germany’s fourth COVID-19 wave was mainly driven by the unvaccinated
B F Maier
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M Wiedermann
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A Burdinski
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P Klamser
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M Jenny
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C Betsch
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D Brockmann
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 …
Biases in human mobility data impact epidemic modeling
F Schlosser
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Vedran Sekara
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D Brockmann
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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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Finding disease outbreak locations from human mobility data
F Schlosser
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D Brockmann
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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New paper out: Finding disease outbreak locations from human mobility data
F Schlosser
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D Brockmann
New Monitor: Contact patterns during the Pandemic
F Schlosser
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P Klamser
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D Brockmann
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A Zachariae
Saving human lives: What complexity science and information systems can contribute
D Helbing
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D Brockmann
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T Chadefaux
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K Donnay
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U Blanke
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O Woolley-Meza
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M Moussaid
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A Johansson
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J Krause
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S Schutte
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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
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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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Natural human mobility patterns and spatial spread of infectious diseases
V Belik
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T Geisel
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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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Forecast and control of epidemics in a globalized world
L Hufnagel
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D Brockmann
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T Geisel
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101 (42), 15124-15129
The rapid worldwide spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome demonstrated the potential threat an infectious disease poses in a closely …
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