Omar - 3/31/2020 16:53
Because of the scale, of course each person looks like they have way more contact in an area than they really did. But all it takes is one person in the right situation to cause a huge mess. Witness the guy in Newfoundland who managed to infect quite a few at a pair of funerals in one day.
The map does show how interconnected our world really is. And this was after a lot of international travel was already being restricted.
I'm curious how that company got the phone data though. Is this a common thing for research?