Social physics

M Jusup, P Holme, K Kanazawa, M Takayasu, I Romić… - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

What human mobility data tell us about COVID-19 spread

L Alessandretti - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Peoples' movements—both local and long-distance—have driven the spread of COVID-19,
within and between communities. At the same time, although most contagion events involve …

Outbreak. info genomic reports: scalable and dynamic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 variants and mutations

K Gangavarapu, AA Latif, JL Mullen, M Alkuzweny… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
In response to the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern, the global scientific
community, through unprecedented effort, has sequenced and shared over 11 million …

The evolving SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Africa: Insights from rapidly expanding genomic surveillance

H Tegally, JE San, M Cotten, M Moir, B Tegomoh… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Investment in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) sequencing
in Africa over the past year has led to a major increase in the number of sequences that …

Spatial planning of urban communities via deep reinforcement learning

Y Zheng, Y Lin, L Zhao, T Wu, D **, Y Li - Nature Computational …, 2023 - nature.com
Effective spatial planning of urban communities plays a critical role in the sustainable
development of cities. Despite the convenience brought by geographic information systems …

Swift and extensive Omicron outbreak in China after sudden exit from 'zero-COVID'policy

EE Goldberg, Q Lin, EO Romero-Severson… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
In late 2022, China transitioned from a strict 'zero-COVID'policy to rapidly abandoning nearly
all interventions and data reporting. This raised great concern about the presumably-rapid …

Urban exodus? Understanding human mobility in Britain during the COVID‐19 pandemic using Meta‐Facebook data

F Rowe, A Calafiore, D Arribas‐Bel… - … , Space and Place, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Existing empirical work has focused on assessing the effectiveness of nonpharmaceutical
interventions on human mobility to contain the spread of COVID‐19. Less is known about …

[HTML][HTML] Covid-19 and outdoor recreation management: Increased participation, connection to nature, and a look to climate adaptation

T Beery, MR Olsson, M Vitestam - Journal of Outdoor Recreation and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Outdoor recreation management perspectives were investigated based on the general
perception of increased public outdoor recreation participation during the Covid-19 …

Key epidemiological drivers and impact of interventions in the 2020 SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in England

ES Knock, LK Whittles, JA Lees… - Science Translational …, 2021 - science.org
We fitted a model of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in care homes and the community to
regional surveillance data for England. Compared with other approaches, our model …

Global impact of COVID-19 pandemic on road traffic collisions

YJ Yasin, M Grivna, FM Abu-Zidan - World journal of emergency surgery, 2021 - Springer
Background Various strategies to reduce the spread of COVID-19 including lockdown and
stay-at-home order are expected to reduce road traffic characteristics and consequently road …