Role of mask wearing in mitigating viral spread
Published in Physical Review E, 2023
In this paper, we propose a model of population heterogeneity over monoplex complex networks. We are the first to report an irregular but exciting case where the probability of an epidemic exhibits opposite trends with the epidemic size. This result demonstrates that when considering mitigation strategies, we should keep two distinct phases in mind, rather than one as most literature suggests.
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@article{PhysRevE.108.014306, title = {Role of masks in mitigating viral spread on networks}, author = {Tian, Yurun and Sridhar, Anirudh and Wu, Chai Wah and Levin, Simon A. and Carley, Kathleen M. and Poor, H. Vincent and Ya\ifmmode \breve{g}\else \u{g}\fi{}an, Osman}, journal = {Phys. Rev. E}, volume = {108}, issue = {1}, pages = {014306}, numpages = {24}, year = {2023}, month = {Jul}, publisher = {American Physical Society}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevE.108.014306}, url = {https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.108.014306} }