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Human agency and infection rates: Implications for social distancing during epidemics
- Abstract:
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Social distancing is an important measure in controlling epidemics. This paper presents a simple theoretical model focussed on the implications of the wide range in interaction rates between individuals, both within the workplace and in social settings. The model is based on well-mixed populations and so is not intended for studying geographic spread. The model shows that epidemic growth rate is largely determined by the upper interactivity quantiles of society, implying that the most efficie...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS One Journal website
- Volume:
- 15
- Issue:
- 12
- Article number:
- e0243699
- Publication date:
- 2020-12-15
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-11-27
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1932-6203
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1149908
- Local pid:
- pubs:1149908
- Deposit date:
- 2020-12-15
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- Copyright holder:
- Christopher Bronk Ramsey
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- Copyright © 2020 Christopher Bronk Ramsey. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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