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Europhysics News
Volume 51, Number 5, September-December 2020
Physics of Living Matter
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| Page(s) | 38 - 40 | |
| Section | Features: Physics of Living Matter | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epn/2020507 | |
| Published online | 20 November 2020 | |
Epidemic spreading: Tailored models for COVID-19
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Departament d’Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, E-43007 Tarragona, Spain
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Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Zaragoza, E-50009 Zaragoza, Spain
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GOTHAM Lab, Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems, University of Zaragoza, E-50018 Zaragoza, Spain
A very simple epidemic model proposed a century ago is the linchpin of the current mathematical models of the epidemic spreading of the COVID-19. Nowadays, the abstracted compartmentalisation of the population in susceptible, infected and recovered individuals, combined with precise information about the networks of mobility flows within geographical territories, is the best weapon of the physics community to forecast the possible evolution of contagions in the current pandemic scenario.
© European Physical Society, EDP Sciences, 2020
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