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Homophily impacts the success of vaccine roll-outs
Giulio Burgio, Benjamin Steinegger, Alex Arenas
Physical contacts do not occur randomly, rather, individuals with similar socio-demographic and behavioural characteristics are more likely to interact among them, a phenomenon kno…
The impact of homophily on digital proximity tracing
Giulio Burgio, Benjamin Steinegger, Giacomo Rapisardi +1
We study how homophily of human physical interactions affects the efficacy of digital proximity tracing. Analytical results show a non monotonous dependence of the reproduction num…
Virus spread versus contact tracing: two competing contagion processes
Adriana Reyna-Lara, David Soriano-Paños, Sergio Gómez +5
After the blockade that many nations suffered to stop the growth of the incidence curve of COVID-19 during the first half of 2020, they face the challenge of resuming their social…
Pulsating-campaigns of human prophylaxis driven by risk perception palliate oscillations of direct contact transmitted diseases
Benjamin Steinegger, Alex Arenas, Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes +1
Human behavioral responses play an important role in the impact of disease outbreaks and yet they are often overlooked in epidemiological models. Understanding to what extent behav…
Evaluating the impact of PrEP on HIV and gonorrhea on a networked population of female sex workers
Alba Bernini, Elodie Blouzard, Alberto Bracci +6
Sexual contacts are the main spreading route of HIV. This puts sex workers at higher risk of infection even in populations where HIV prevalence is moderate or low. Alongside condom…
Interplay between cost and benefits triggers nontrivial vaccination uptake
Benjamin Steinegger, Alessio Cardillo, Paolo De Los Rios +2
The containment of epidemic spreading is a major challenge in science. Vaccination, whenever available, is the best way to prevent the spreading, because it eventually immunizes in…