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Pandemic waves as the outcome of coupled behaviour and disease dynamics: a mathematical modelling study

2026-02-07 epidemiology Title + abstract only
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BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic was strongly shaped by the interaction between population behaviour and transmission dynamics. Standard mathematical models do not account for this interaction, however. Objectivewe tested whether adding a mechanistic representation of population behavioural dynamics improves the ability of a mathematical model to explain and predict COVID-19 pandemic waves. MethodsWe compared a standard Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model to a variant (SIRx) with a mecha...

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