Dynamics of the number of infected humans per patch in a network of 5 nodes for a fully connected network (a) and a Barabasi-Albert network (b).

Abstract

<p>In (a) the vulnerability index <i>VR</i>_<i>i</i> indicates patch 3 (red line) as the most vulnerable and in (b) the most vulnerable as indicated by <i>VR</i>_<i>i</i> is patch 1 (red line). The most vulnerable patch corresponds to the one with more cases at the beginning of the epidemic (let say <i>t</i> ≤ 50).</p