Nina Fefferman, an epidemiologist at Rutgers University, told WNYC’s New Tech City that the incident introduced a “curiosity” factor that had never been included before in models, where people would travel to the scene of an outbreak just to see what was going on. People would take on certain roles, such as a National Guard to protect quarantine zones, medical staff, or of those who wanted to take advantage of the chaos… “So we’ve got the social set up that we need for the behaviors to be not, again, realistic for the real world but a little closer than just sitting down and thinking to yourself ‘huh, I wonder what I would do,” Fefferman said.
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