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Herd immunity and a vaccination game: An experimental study.
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- Simple economics of vaccination: public policies and incentives.International journal of health economics and management · 2024Article
- An experimental game to assess hunter's participation in zoonotic diseases surveillance.BMC public health · 2024Article
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- Interventions to increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake: a scoping review.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Article
- The path towards herd immunity: Predicting COVID-19 vaccination uptake through results from a stated choice study across six continents.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2022Article
- The transmission game: Testing behavioral interventions in a pandemic-like simulation.Science advances · 2022Article
- Trust and vaccination intentions: Evidence from Lithuania during the COVID-19 pandemic.PloS one · 2022Article
- On the Origin of Neutrophil Extracellular Traps in COVID-19.Frontiers in immunology · 2022Review
- Social distancing is a social dilemma game played by every individual against his/her population.PloS one · 2021Article
- Potential for elimination of SAR-CoV-2 through vaccination as inspired by elimination of multiple influenza viruses through natural pandemics or mass vaccination.Journal of medical virology · 2020Review
- Predicting and analyzing the COVID-19 epidemic in China: Based on SEIRD, LSTM and GWR models.PloS one · 2020Article
- COVID-19 Pandemic: A Compressive Review on Gender, Herd Immunity, and Physiological Mechanisms.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2020Review
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Abstract
Would the affected communities voluntarily obtain herd immunity if a cure for COVID-19 was available? This paper experimentally investigates people's vaccination choices in the context of a nonlinear public good game. A "vaccination game" is defined in which costly commitments (vaccination) are required of a fraction of the population to reach the critical level needed for herd immunity, without which defectors are punished by the natural contagion of epidemics. Our experimental implementation of a vaccination game in a controlled laboratory setting reveals that endogenous epidemic punishment is a credible threat, resulting in voluntary vaccination to obtain herd immunity, for which the orthodox principle of positive externalities fails to account. The concave nature of the infection probability plays a key role in facilitating the elimination of an epidemic.
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