Ethical implications of COVID-19 management—is freedom a desired aim, or a desired means to an end?

A Košec, F Hergešić, B Zdilar, L Svetina… - Frontiers in Public …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Most developed societies managed, due to their prosperity and resource abundance, to
structure relationships among free individuals in such a way to leave them fundamentally …

The impact of fear and behaviour response to established and novel diseases

A Kaur, R Tyson, I Moyles - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.15595, 2024 - arxiv.org
We analyze a disease transmission model that allows individuals to acquire fear and
change their behaviour to reduce transmission. Fear is acquired through contact with …

Modelling Incidence-Based Social Distancing Via Integral Renewal Equations

B Buonomo, E Messina, C Panico - Available at SSRN 4822222 - papers.ssrn.com
We consider an integral epidemic model augmented by an information index to take into
account that the willingness of individuals to adhere to social distancing depends on the …