Virus spread versus contact tracing: Two competing contagion processes
Adriana Reyna-Lara, David Soriano-Paños, Sergio Gómez, Clara Granell, Joan T. Matamalas, Benjamin Steinegger, Alex Arenas, Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes
Abstract
The authors model contact tracing as a secondary contagion process that competes with that of the pathogen, thus effectively breaking transmission chains, and show that contact tracing allows to bend the curve.
Topics & Concepts
Contact tracingTransmission (telecommunications)Process (computing)Computer scienceTracingContact process (mathematics)EconomicsWork (physics)Transmission rateDisease transmissionEconometricsEngineeringStochastic processCOVID-19 epidemiological studiesCOVID-19 Digital Contact TracingViral Infections and Outbreaks Research