It seems obvious that restricting travel should help prevent the surge of epidemics. But a new mathematical analysis now demonstrates that mobility often reduces the heterogeneity in population distributions, thereby lowering the epidemic risk.
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Scarpino, S.V. Don’t close the gates. Nature Phys 14, 331–333 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-017-0028-1
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