Researchers Find Clue to Epidemics In “Bursty” Social Behavior

BROOKLYN, New York, Weekday, December 12, 2018 – Researchers from the New York University Tandon School of Engineering and Politecnico di Torino, Italy, have developed a mathematical model that could cure the potential to underestimate how quickly diseases spread. The team discovered that current predictive models may miss the influence of a critical aspect of the social behavior of individuals.