School closures, event cancellations, and the mesoscopic localization of epidemics in networks with higher-order structure Guillaume St-Onge,1, 2 Vincent Thibeault,1, 2 Antoine Allard,1, 2 Louis J. Dub´e,1, 2 and Laurent H´ebert-Dufresne1, 3, 4 1...
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School closures, event cancellations, and the mesoscopic localization of epidemics in networks with higher-order structure Guillaume St-Onge,1, 2 Vincent Thibeault,1, 2 Antoine Allard,1, 2 Louis J. Dub´e,1, 2 and Laurent H´ebert-Dufresne1, 3, 4 1 D´epartement de physique, de g´enie physique et d’optique, Universit´e Laval, Qu´ebec (Qu´ebec), Canada G1V 0A6 2 Centre interdisciplinaire en mod´elisation math´ematique, Universit´e Laval, Qu´ebec (Qu´ebec), Canada G1V 0A6 3 Vermont Complex Systems Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405 4 Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405 The COVID-19 epidemic is challenging in many ways, perhaps most obvious are failures of the surveillance arXiv:2003.05924v1 [physics.soc-ph] 12 Mar 2020 system. Consequently, the official intervention has focused on conventional wisdom — social distancing, hand washing, etc. — while critical decisions such as the cancellation of large events like festivals, workshops an
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