Recently a powerful example of a replicating nano-machinery entered our society. In principle it’s just a normal disease, that one attempt to model with 3 or 4 simple coupled equations with 2 important parameters: a timescale, and a replication factor (the famous R0). And then one try to guess how changes in society changes R0 and perhaps adopt some more or less strong lock-down measures. However, this virus have more “personality” than that. It behaves different in different persons, and persons behave differently. Perhaps only a few of us infect a lot, while most does not infect so much. I will discuss this and other aspects of Covid-19 in perspective of models that describe heterogeneous individuals in a society. In particular we find that that mitigating superspreading opportunities opens for a cost effective ways to mitigate Covid-19 and prevent second waves.
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