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cord-184854-2ledrw9j	Majumdar, Arnab	Heterogeneous contact networks in COVID-19 spreading: the role of social deprivation	2020-05-01		.txt	text/plain	6030	282	56	First we use theories of disease spreading on networks to look at the COVID-19 epidemic on the basis of individual contacts -these give rise to predictions which are often rather different from the homogeneous mixing approaches usually used. Newman [3] was the first to take into account that individuals needed to be resolved in terms of their 'degree distribution', i.e. the number of people that they were in contact with, and his pioneering solutions to the disease propagation network have since been widely used [4] [5] [6] [7] for epidemics ranging from HIV to SARS-1. We demonstrate this here in the context of the city of Kolkata, which captures two aspects critical to our thesis -strong heterogeneity in terms of personal contact networks, as well as areas of great social deprivation, both of which, as will be seen, can lead to the rapid spread of epidemics.	./cache/cord-184854-2ledrw9j.txt	./txt/cord-184854-2ledrw9j.txt