Phone data identify travel hubs at risk of a second wave of infections

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One possible explanation for why Lombardy was hit so hard by covid-19 is that it is the best-networked part of Italy

the first wave of covid-19 infections has crested, governments are starting to relax their lockdowns. In Italy shops will open their doors from May 18th. Parts of Germany and America are also reopening on a state-by-state basis. Mobile-phone data show that people are buzzing around a bit more than they did in April.

Teralytics, a Swiss technology firm, has compiled data from Germany, Italy and America that support this hypothesis. Each time a mobile phone leaves one location and arrives at a new one for an hour or more—whether such travel is within a city or for longer distances—Teralytics logs the journey. In the week before lockdowns began, the firm recorded 5.7bn trips. Travel fell by 40% once they were implemented.

 

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salahkhashoggi Mobility is the reason.

DebraMessing And do you think they care?

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You mean the more people travel, the more they interact, the greater the chance of a second wave of cases, like wow omg what ground breaking research, who would've thunk it. 😨

There’s no 2nd wave infection, The Pharma’s owned media spins fear in order to sell idea of mass vaccination There’s COVID and it’ll behave as 5 of its sisters behaved before and herd immunity is the end of it. If we leave lockdown. But this article sends “stay home” message.

Mobility is a path to a virus indeed

Did you consult with global warming modelers? Their models were even worse than models for the Communist Chinese virus from hell.

But if it’s only healthy people traveling why would there be a second wave ?

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