During pandemic events, strategies such as social distancing can be fundamental to reduce
simultaneous infections and mitigate the disease spreading, which is very relevant to the risk …

With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging and the vaccination program still rolling out, there
continues to be an immediate need for public health officials to better understand the …

Social distancing as one of the main non-pharmaceutical interventions can help slow down
the spread of diseases, like in the COVID-19 pandemic. Effective social distancing, unless …

We propose a system theoretic approach to select and stabilize the endemic equilibrium of
an SIRS epidemic model in which the decisions of a population of strategically interacting …

Feedback-evolving games characterize the interplay between the evolution of strategies and
environments. Rich dynamics have been derived for such games under the premise of the …

Voluntary vaccination is effective to prevent infectious diseases from spreading. Both
vaccination behavior and cognition of the vaccination risk play important roles in individual …

In fighting infectious diseases posing a global health threat, ranging from influenza to Zika,
nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPI), such as social distancing and face covering, remain …

In the situation of inadequate vaccines and rapid mutation of virulent strains, alternative
health interventions play a crucial role in the containment of emerging epidemics. This study …

With the aid of the evolutionary vaccination game on a scale-free network, we design a new
subsidy policy, named degree dependent subsidy, where cooperative agents get incentives …

Introduction Successful vaccine promotion communication strategies require knowing how
eligible recipients will respond to the opportunity to get vaccinated. Two main classes of …