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2009
Viruses
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About the work

A decade before the COVID-19 pandemic, the BarabásiLab was using mobile-phone data to map the spread of newly emerging mobile-phone viruses and predict their hidden transmissions patterns. The pattern unveiled by the lab’s work is strikingly similar to what’s been observed during the asymptomatic spread of the Covid-19 virus.

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Viruses, by A.-L. Barabási, M. Gonzalez,
C. A. Hidalgo, and P. Wang, created for “Understanding the Spreading Patterns of Mobile Phone Viruses,” Science (May 22, 2009)

 

 

 

The contact network of a super-spreader, which appears as a giant red node in the middle of their network, with their node size being proportional to the number of infections caused. The super spreader is connected to all of the individuals they infected, who in turn are linked to the people they infected, reflecting the cascade of infections that supports the virus in the society.
The contact network of a super-spreader, which appears as a giant red node in the middle of their network, with their node size being proportional to the number of infections caused. The super spreader is connected to all of the individuals they infected, who in turn are linked to the people they infected, reflecting the cascade of infections that supports the virus in the society.
The spread of a cell-phone virus in space and time. The sequence reveals how the virus, beginning in a rural area, goes on to infect densely populated regions first and then spreads back from urban to rural areas.

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