One pathogen does not an epidemic make: a review of interacting contagions, diseases, beliefs, and stories
2025-09-06 → 2025-09-06
- Citation info: npj Complexity volume 2, Article number: 26 (2025)
- Authors: Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Antoine Allard, Jessica W. Crothers, Peter Sheridan Dodds, Mirta Galesic, Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad, Dominique Gravel, Ross A. Hammond, Kristina Lerman, Juniper Lovato, John J. Openshaw, S. Redner, Samuel V. Scarpino, Guillaume St-Onge, Timothy R. Tangherlini, and Jean-Gabriel Young
- DOI | arXiv
one persistent assumption is that a given contagion can be studied in isolation, independently from what else might be spreading in the population. In reality, countless contagions of biological and social nature interact within hosts (interacting with existing beliefs, or the immune system) and across hosts (interacting in the environment, or affecting transmission mechanisms). … we highlight the need for interdisciplinary efforts under a unified science of contagions and for removing a common dichotomy between social and biological contagions.