Finally, we highlight that the estimated network needs not to be very accurate to be useful. The results of Section 3.3 beautifully illustrate this, where targeted isolation based on an estimated network which is only 16.6% accurate is still very effective in mitigating epidemics (Figure 5a-b) . This unexpected effectiveness of EGP applied on an inaccurately estimated network prompted us to better understand why this is happening. A deeper look at the preliminary study which we can visualize suggests that, while the predicted links are inaccurate, the nodes that emerged from the estimation are mostly hubs and are concentrated along the backbones of the infection network. Hence, removal of these nodes will effectively slow the advancing epidemic. Naturally, we expect even better results with a more accurate estimation.