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Considering the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic occurred in a less populated world not connected by robust air travel networks and still managed to spread to every co
by ianhawes 6y ago
Considering the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic occurred in a less populated world not connected by robust air travel networks and still managed to spread to every country in roughly the same timeframe would indicate that neither total population nor air travel are variables in the spread.
- Pyramus 6y agoIf there only was this vast field of computer scientists, mathematicians, physicists, biologists and disease experts that do nothing else but model the spread of infectious diseases. Not surprisingly it turns out that travel networks play a major role in the early phases of a pandemic [1]. [1] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/342/6164/1337 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/342/6164/1337