Common group dynamic drives modern epidemics across social, financial and biological domains
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∗Physics Department, University of Miami, Florida FL 33126, U.S.A.„†Industrial Engineering Department, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia,‡School of Physical Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, People’s Republic of China,§Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Oxford University, Oxford OX1 3LB, U.K.,¶ETH Zurich, D-MTEC, Kreuzplatz 5, 8001, Zurich, Switzerland, and ‖Department of Physics, Chinese University of Hong Kong,
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