Fluid Dynamics of a Pandemic in a Spatial Social Network: A Reflective Measure of the Spreading

Alqithami, S.

The understanding of a society has changed over the past few decades from the observation of a brick-and-mortar structure to a more evolving network of interconnectivity amongst its members. We were able to observe closely such evolution in the recent spreading of the COVID-19 pandemic. People spatial interactions have a significant impact on the disease transmission and for the infection to further spread. Even though social precautious were recommended and in a few cases forced by local government and agencies for infection control, we faced and still living through an unprecedented viral spreading of the virus and its resultant many metamorphisms. In light of this, the article strides to understand the spreading of the virus starting from a case zero within a finite graph within an environment to a susceptible feature infected agent utilizing a simplified game theoretical approach. Argumentation between agent was simulated as a mean of spatial interactions for a better reflection of an agent going through the states of the epidemiological SEI compartmental model within different waves of transmission flow. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.