COVID-19
🇧🇷 Número de casos confirmados de COVID-19 no Brasil (Number of confirmed cases in Brazil by municipalities)
🇧🇷 Outbreak diversity in epidemic waves propagating through distinct geographical scales
🇪🇸 Modeling the spatiotemporal epidemic spreading of COVID-19 and the impact of mobility and social distancing interventions
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Publications
2022
[15] Government inaction on COVID-19 vaccines contributes to the persistence of childism in Brazil
Lorena G. Barberia, Alexandra Boing, Luciana Santana, Wesley Cota, Leonardo S. BastosThe Lancet Regional Health - Americas 2022;13: 100346 [Open Access]
[10.1016/j.lana.2022.100346]
[14] Modeling Communicable Diseases, Human Mobility, and Epidemics: A Review
David Soriano-Paños, Wesley Cota, Silvio C. Ferreira, Gourab Ghoshal, Alex Arenas, Jesús Gómez-GardeñesAnnalen der Physik, 2100482 (2022) [Open Access]
[10.1002/andp.202100482]
[13] Effects of infection fatality ratio and social contact matrices on vaccine prioritization strategies
Arthur Schulenburg, Wesley Cota, Guilherme S. Costa, Silvio C. FerreiraChaos 32, 093102 (2022)
arXiv:2201.02869
Supplemental Material: https://wcota.me/p222supp
[10.1063/5.0096532]
[12] Data-driven approach in a compartmental epidemic model to assess undocumented infections
Guilherme S. Costa, Wesley Cota, Silvio C. FerreiraChaos, Solitons and Fractals 163 112520 (2022)
arXiv:2201.03476
Supplemental Material: https://wcota.me/p221supp
[10.1016/j.chaos.2022.112520]
2021
[11] Infectious disease dynamics in metapopulations with heterogeneous transmission and recurrent mobility
Wesley Cota, David Soriano-Paños, Alex Arenas, Silvio C. Ferreira, Jesús Gómez-GardeñesNew Journal of Physics 23 073019 (2021) [Open Access, video abstract available]
arXiv:2102.10614
[10.1088/1367-2630/ac0c99]
2020
[⭐] Doctoral thesis: Spreading phenomena on complex networks and social systems
Wesley CotaSeptember, 2020
Doctor Scientiae (Physics)
Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil
Full text and information [Open Access]
Recorded defense (audio pt-br, slides in english)
Adviser: Silvio da Costa Ferreira Junior
Co-adviser: Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes
[10] Outbreak diversity in epidemic waves propagating through distinct geographical scales
Guilherme S. Costa, Wesley Cota, Silvio da Costa Ferreira JuniorPhys. Rev. Research 2, 043306 (2020) [Open Access]
arXiv:2011.03380
Supplemental Material: https://wcota.me/covid19brmetapopSI
In Portuguese: Modelagem do avanço da COVID-19 no interior do Brasil
See the Supplemental Material for details
[10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.043306]Other version: Metapopulation modeling of COVID-19 advancing into the countryside: an analysis of mitigation strategies for Brazil, medRxiv 2020.05.06.20093492 (2020)
[9] Monitoring the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in Brazil at municipal and federative units level
Wesley CotaSciELOPreprints:362 (2020) [Open Access, description of the data]
Interactive page: English, Portuguese
[10.1590/SciELOPreprints.362]
[8] Modeling the spatiotemporal epidemic spreading of COVID-19 and the impact of mobility and social distancing interventions
Alex Arenas, Wesley Cota, Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes, Sérgio Gómez, Clara Granell, Joan T. Matamalas, David Soriano-Paños, Benjamin SteineggerPhysical Review X 10, 041055 (2020) [Open Access]
Supplemental Material: https://wcota.me/p202supp
[10.1103/PhysRevX.10.041055]
Other version: Derivation of the effective reproduction number ℛ for COVID-19 in relation to mobility restrictions and confinement, medRxiv 2020.04.06.20054320 (2020)
[7] Mathematical model for the spatiotemporal epidemic spreading of COVID-19
Alex Arenas, Wesley Cota, Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes, Sérgio Gómez, Clara Granell, Joan T. Matamalas, David Soriano-Paños, Benjamin SteineggermedRxiv 2020.03.21.20040022 [Open Access]
Download paper
[10.1101/2020.03.21.20040022]
2019
[6] Spectral properties and the accuracy of mean-field approaches for epidemics on correlated networks
Diogo H. Silva, Silvio C. Ferreira, Wesley Cota, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Claudio CastellanoPhys. Rev. Research 1, 033024 (2019) [Open Access]
arXiv:1907.02144
[10.1103/PhysRevResearch.1.033024]
[5] Quantifying echo chamber effects in information spreading over political communication networks
Wesley Cota, Silvio C. Ferreira, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Michele StarniniEPJ Data Science 8, 35 (2019) [Open Access]
arXiv:1901.03688
Supplemental Material: https://wcota.me/p191supp
[10.1140/epjds/s13688-019-0213-9]
2018
[4] Robustness and fragility of the susceptible-infected-susceptible epidemic models on complex networks
Wesley Cota, Angélica S. Mata, Silvio C. FerreiraPhysical Review E 98, 012310 (2018)
arXiv:1804.08422
[10.1103/PhysRevE.98.012310]
[Conference poster]
[3] Griffiths phases in infinite-dimensional, non-hierarchical modular networks
Wesley Cota, Géza Ódor, Silvio C. FerreiraScientific Reports 8:9144 (2018) [Open Access]
arXiv:1801.06406
Supplemental Material: https://wcota.me/p181supp
[10.1038/s41598-018-27506-x]
[Conference poster]
2017
[2] Optimized Gillespie algorithms for the simulation of Markovian epidemic processes on large and heterogeneous networks
Wesley Cota, Silvio C. FerreiraComputer Physics Communications 219C (2017) pp. 303-312
arXiv:1704.01557
Repository: wcota/dynSIS
[10.1016/j.cpc.2017.06.007]
[Conference poster]
2016
[1] Griffiths effects of the susceptible-infected-susceptible epidemic model on random power-law networks
Wesley Cota, Silvio C. Ferreira, Géza ÓdorPhysical Review E 93, 032322 (2016)
arXiv:1512.05274
[10.1103/PhysRevE.93.032322]
Links
COVID-19 in Brazil
Dataset with COVID-19 cases in Brazil
COVID-19 in the countryside: Phys. Rev. Research 2, 043306 (2020)
COVID-19 in Spain
Model of COVID-19 spreading: Phys. Rev. X 10, 041055 (2020)
Risk map for Spain, Portugal and Brazil (not updated)
dynSIS
Implementation of SIS epidemic model for large and heterogeneous networks
Available in Fortran and Python (NumPy and NetworkX)
mod_rndgen
Fortran module of the KISS random number generator
It allow the use of multiple independent random number generators at the same time
Visualization of friendship networks from Facebook
(disabled, portuguese)
Old page that extracted friendship networks from Facebook profiles