Anomalous role of information diffusion in epidemic spreading
A widely held belief in network epidemiology is that information diffusion makes individuals aware of the epidemic and thus drives them to seek protections from nonpharmaceutical or pharmaceutical resources, which can help suppress its spread. However, as the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed, excessiv...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2021-02-01
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Series: | Physical Review Research |
Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.013157 |