No node "controls" the epidemic — each node only infects a few neighbours of its own. Whether the epidemic flares large or fizzles emerges from the network structure & the two numbers β, γ.
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Node color = state (susceptible · infected · recovered) · big node = many connections · click a node to infect it
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Epidemic curve — S / I / R over timesusceptibleinfectedrecovered