Divide and conquer (IMAGE)

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Divide and conquer

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Divide and conquer: Red curve shows the effect of 10 infected individuals in a population of 1 million people. If the population is broken into groups of 100,000 each, three subpopulations experience desynchronized outbreaks (shorter colored curves). In the remaining seven subgroups, gray curve, the outbreak is extinguished.

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Philip Bittihn and Ramin Golestanian

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