The time scales of individual contagion and human mobility are both relevant to understand the evolution of epidemics. Here, the authors study a reaction-diffusion process for an epidemic metapopulation model, showing that modulating the relative time scale of these two processes produces different epidemic outcomes and can reproduce the effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions.
- Piergiorgio Castioni
- Riccardo Gallotti
- Manlio De Domenico
