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ArticleBulletin of mathematical biology2019

The Final Size of a Serious Epidemic.

Fred Brauer

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Article in Bulletin of mathematical biology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Epidemic modeling with heterogeneity and social diffusion.Journal of mathematical biology · 2023
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  8. The mathematics of multiple lockdowns.Scientific reports · 2021
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  9. The Effect of Face Mask Use on COVID-19 Models.Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Fred BrauerDepartment of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. brauer@math.ubc.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2436-2837

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In an epidemic of a serious disease, there is likely to be behavioral response that decreases the epidemic size considerably, and taking this into account may lead to estimates of the final epidemic size that are much smaller and more realistic than estimates that do not take this into account.

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Models, BiologicalBasic Reproduction NumberComputer SimulationDisease Transmission, InfectiousEpidemicsGuineaHemorrhagic Fever, EbolaHumansLiberiaMathematical ConceptsSierra LeoneBehavioral responseEpidemic modelsFinal size relations

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PMID30535846
PMCPMC6373330

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