A comparison of node vaccination strategies to halt SIR epidemic spreading in real-world complex networks

F Sartori, M Turchetto, M Bellingeri, F Scotognella… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
We compared seven node vaccination strategies in twelve real-world complex networks.
The node vaccination strategies are modeled as node removal on networks. We performed …

[HTML][HTML] Health behavior homophily can mitigate the spread of infectious diseases in small-world networks

H Nunner, V Buskens, A Teslya… - Social Science & Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Research has repeatedly shown that the spread of infectious diseases is influenced by
properties of our social networks. Small-world like structures with densely connected …

Emotional contagion: Research on the influencing factors of social media users' negative emotional communication during the COVID-19 pandemic

D Lu, D Hong - Frontiers in psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
During the epidemic, social media platforms were frequently used by users to express and
spread negative emotions. Under emotional contagion, individual emotions gradually …

Prolonged exposure weakens risk perception and behavioral mobility response: Empirical evidence from Covid-19

A Stechemesser, M Kotz, M Auffhammer… - Transportation research …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the behavioral response dynamics to risks is important for informed policy-
making at times of crises. Here we elucidate two response channels to Covid-19 risk and …

The effect of mobility reductions on infection growth is quadratic in many cases

S Paltra, I Bostanci, K Nagel - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Stay-at-home orders were introduced in many countries during the COVID-19 pandemic,
limiting the time people spent outside their home and the attendance of gatherings. In this …

Assessing the perceived effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions on SARS-Cov-2 transmission risk: an experimental study in Europe

GA Veltri, JI Steinert, H Sternberg, MM Galizzi… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
We conduct a large (N= 6567) online experiment to measure the features of non-
pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) that citizens of six European countries perceive to lower …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating vaccine allocation strategies using simulation-assisted causal modeling

A Kekić, J Dehning, L Gresele, J von Kügelgen… - Patterns, 2023 - cell.com
We develop a model to retrospectively evaluate age-dependent counterfactual vaccine
allocation strategies against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. To …

Societal feedback induces complex and chaotic dynamics in endemic infectious diseases

J Wagner, S Bauer, S Contreras… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Classically, endemic diseases are expected to display relatively stable, predictable infection
dynamics. Indeed, diseases like influenza show yearly recurring infection waves that can be …

[HTML][HTML] The Mediating Role of Human Mobility in Temporal-Lagged Relationships Between Risk Perception and COVID-19 Dynamics in Taiwan: Statistical Modeling …

MC Chang, TH Wen - JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 2024 - publichealth.jmir.org
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted all aspects of human life for
over 3 years. Understanding the evolution of public risk perception during these periods is …

Autonomous and policy-induced behavior change during the COVID-19 pandemic: Towards understanding and modeling the interplay of behavioral adaptation

H Zozmann, L Schüler, X Fu, E Gawel - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Changes in human behaviors, such as reductions of physical contacts and the adoption of
preventive measures, impact the transmission of infectious diseases considerably …