Herd Immunity and Epidemic Size in Networks with Vaccination Homophily

Autor:	Hiraoka, Takayuki, Rizi, Abbas K., Kivelä, Mikko, Saramäki, Jari
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Physics - Physics and Society
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevE.105.L052301
Popis:	We study how the herd immunity threshold and the expected epidemic size depend on homophily with respect to vaccine adoption. We find that the presence of homophily considerably increases the critical vaccine coverage needed for herd immunity and that strong homophily can push the threshold entirely out of reach. The epidemic size monotonically increases as a function of homophily strength for a perfect vaccine, while it is maximized at a nontrivial level of homophily when the vaccine efficacy is limited. Our results highlight the importance of vaccination homophily in epidemic modeling. Comment: 12 pages, 9 figures
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2112.07538 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv