Unraveling the role of adapting risk perception during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe

B Heinlein, M De Domenico - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2023 - Elsevier
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the behavioral response to reported case numbers
changed drastically over time. While a few dozen cases were enough to trigger government …

Managing awareness can avoid hysteresis in disease spread: an application to coronavirus Covid-19

D Lacitignola, G Saccomandi - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2021 - Elsevier
A SEIR-type model is investigated to evaluate the effects of awareness campaigns in the
presence of factors that can induce overexposure to disease. We find that high levels of …

Individual risk-aversion responses tune epidemics to critical transmissibility (R = 1)

S Manrubia, DH Zanette - Royal Society Open Science, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Changes in human behaviour are a major determinant of epidemic dynamics. Collective
activity can be modified through imposed control measures, but spontaneous changes can …

[HTML][HTML] Individual risk perception and empirical social structures shape the dynamics of infectious disease outbreaks

V d'Andrea, R Gallotti, N Castaldo… - PLOS Computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The dynamics of a spreading disease and individual behavioral changes are entangled
processes that have to be addressed together in order to effectively manage an outbreak …

[HTML][HTML] Investigating dynamics of COVID-19 spread and containment with agent-based modeling

A Rajabi, AV Mantzaris, EC Mutlu, OO Garibay - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Governments, policy makers, and officials around the globe are working to mitigate the
effects of the COVID-19 pandemic by making decisions that strive to save the most lives and …

A data-driven assessment of early travel restrictions related to the spreading of the novel COVID-19 within mainland China

A Aleta, Q Hu, J Ye, P Ji, Y Moreno - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2020 - Elsevier
Two months after it was firstly reported, the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 spread
worldwide. However, the vast majority of reported infections until February occurred in …

A hybrid multi-scale model of COVID-19 transmission dynamics to assess the potential of non-pharmaceutical interventions

A Bouchnita, A Jebrane - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2020 - Elsevier
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a novel coronavirus that
emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019. It has caused a global outbreak which …

[HTML][HTML] Asymptomatic individuals can increase the final epidemic size under adaptive human behavior

B Espinoza, M Marathe, S Swarup, M Thakur - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Infections produced by non-symptomatic (pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic) individuals
have been identified as major drivers of COVID-19 transmission. Non-symptomatic …

Behavioural response to heterogeneous severity of COVID-19 explains temporal variation of cases among different age groups

B Steinegger, L Arola-Fernández… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Together with seasonal effects inducing outdoor or indoor activities, the gradual easing of
prophylaxis caused second and third waves of SARS-CoV-2 to emerge in various countries …

Mathematical assessment of the role of human behavior changes on SARS-CoV-2 transmission dynamics

B Pant, S Safdar, M Santillana, A Gumel - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has not only presented a major global public health and socio-
economic crisis, but has also significantly impacted human behavior towards adherence (or …