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Contact network structure shaped pandemic transmission despite lockdowns
2026-02-09
public and global health
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Human contact network structure fundamentally shapes infectious disease transmission and control. Most COVID-19 epidemic models assumed approximately homogeneous contact patterns, yet real-world networks are highly heterogeneous. We analysed 59,585 daily non-household contact reports from Germanys COVIMOD study (2020-2021) using a novel heavy-tail regression framework. Throughout the pandemic, contact distributions remained strongly heavy-tailed despite substantial non-pharmaceutical interventio...
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