Efficient detection of contagious outbreaks in massive metropolitan encounter networks
Efficient detection of contagious outbreaks in massive metropolitan encounter networks
Physical contact remains difficult to trace in large metropolitan networks, though it is a key vehicle for the transmission of contagious outbreaks. Co-presence encounters during daily transit use provide us with a city-scale time-resolved physical contact network, consisting of 1 billion contacts among 3 million transit users. Here, we study …