ArticlePhysica A2021
The social dynamics of COVID-19.
Article in Physica A, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Understanding Nash epidemics.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Rational social distancing policy during epidemics with limited healthcare capacity.PLoS computational biology · 2023Article
- Does Social Distancing Matter for Infectious Disease Propagation? An SEIR Model and Gompertz Law Based Cellular Automaton.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Population density impact on COVID-19 mortality rate: A multifractal analysis using French data.Physica A · 2022Article
- Individual risk-aversion responses tune epidemics to critical transmissibility (Royal Society open science · 2022Article
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- Endogenous viral mutations, evolutionary selection, and containment policy design.Journal of economic interaction and coordination · 2022Article
- Social stress drives the multi-wave dynamics of COVID-19 outbreaks.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Advances in the agent-based modeling of economic and social behavior.SN business & economics · 2021Review
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Abstract
We add a simple dynamic process for adaptive "social distancing" measures to a standard SIR model of the COVID pandemic. With a limited attention span and in the absence of a consistent long-term strategy against the pandemic, this process leads to a sweeping of an instability, i.e. fluctuations in the effective reproduction number around its bifurcation value of
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