<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">From Wired Science</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><p style="line-height:26px;margin:1em 0px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,Times,serif;font-size:18px"><span style="line-height:26px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande","Liberation Sans",sans-serif;font-weight:600">Who should get a coronavirus vaccine first?</span></p><p style="line-height:26px;margin:1em 0px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,Times,serif;font-size:18px">It’s likely that health care workers will be the first to get a vaccine when it’s available, and they probably should. Physicists who work on network theory, though, have another way of thinking about vaccine distribution. To reduce the spread quickly, you need to find the social butterflies, the people at the <a href="https://link.wired.com/click/22069268.27049/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud2lyZWQuY29tL3N0b3J5L2NvdmlkLTE5LXZhY2NpbmUtc3VwZXItc3ByZWFkZXJzLz91dG1fc291cmNlPW5sJnV0bV9icmFuZD13aXJlZCZ1dG1fbWFpbGluZz1XSVJfU2NpZW5jZV8xMTExMjAmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPWF1ZC1kZXYmdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fdGVybT1XSVJfU2NpZW5jZSZieGlkPTViZDY3MDkyMmRkZjljNjE5NDM4Y2U5NCZjbmRpZD0yNTMzMTIxOSZlc3JjPWJvdW5jZVgmc291cmNlPUVEVF9XSVJfTkVXU0xFVFRFUl8wX1NDSUVOQ0VfWlombWJpZD1tYmlkJTNEQ1JNV0lSMDEyMDE5JTBBJTBB/5bd670922ddf9c619438ce94B44dc3970" target="_blank" style="line-height:26px;color:rgb(0,0,0);word-break:break-word">center of networks</a>. If you asked everyone to name a single acquaintance, it’s likely you’ll reach the superspreaders in a community quickly. And if you vaccinate them first, that could halt the spread of coronavirus in record time.</p><p style="line-height:26px;margin:1em 0px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,Times,serif;font-size:18px">*******</p><p style="line-height:26px;margin:1em 0px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,Times,serif;font-size:18px">Hey, not just physicists. Mathematical sociologists, engineers, statisticians, etc</p><p style="line-height:26px;margin:1em 0px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,Times,serif;font-size:18px"><br></p></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>George Duncan</div><div>Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University<br><a href="http://georgeduncanart.com/" target="_blank">georgeduncanart.com</a></div><div>See posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram</div>
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<div> <br>My art theme: Dynamic exposition of the tension between matrix order and luminous chaos.<br></div><div><br></div><div><h1 style="letter-spacing:-0.02em;margin:0px"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-weight:normal">"Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion."</font></h1><div><span style="font-size:small;letter-spacing:-0.02em;line-height:1.125em"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">From "Notes to myself on beginning a painting" by Richard Diebenkorn. </font></span></div><table width="85%" style="color:rgb(93,86,81);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:18px;margin:auto;border-collapse:collapse!important"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:center"><p style="margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:12px"><font size="2">"It's that knife-edge of uncertainty where we come alive to our truest power." Joanna Macy.</font></p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:27px;color:rgb(146,146,146);text-align:center"><br></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>