Optimal media reporting intensity on mitigating spread of an emerging infectious disease.

Mass media reports can induce individual behaviour change during a disease outbreak, which has been found to be useful as it reduces the force of infection. We propose a compartmental model by including a new compartment of the intensity of the media reports, which extends existing models by conside...

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Main Authors: Weike Zhou, Yanni Xiao, Jane Marie Heffernan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213898