“Hot-spotting” to improve vaccine allocation by harnessing digital contact tracing technology: An application of percolation theory

• Mark D. Penney ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: m2penney@uwaterloo.ca

  Affiliations Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5883-1099

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• Yigit Yargic,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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• Lee Smolin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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• Edward W. Thommes,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Vaccine Epidemiology and Modeling, Sanofi Pasteur, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Madhur Anand,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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• Chris T. Bauch

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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