Human mobility as an instrument for dynamical analysis of COVID-19 pandemics in Brazil - Sergio Oliva

The COVID-19 pandemic has become a challenge for several areas of science and proven to be a major burden in the population, causing deaths and economic impacts. In the beginning, without vaccines or proven drugs, the disease spread quickly and challenged society and government. The control was based mainly on non-pharmaceutical methods seeking either to reduce the odds of contact with an infected individual causing an infection, such as mask-use and handwashing, or to avoid the contact between an infected and susceptible individual, such as social distancing, lockdown, etc.. Our research interest is the spatial dynamics of this disease, using anonymized mobility data in Brazil from cell phones, we explore some aspects of the epidemic.