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Homophily impacts the success of vaccine roll-outs

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    Identificador: imarina:9258966
    Autores:
    Burgio, GiulioSteinegger, BenjaminArenas, Alex
    Resumen:
    Physical contacts do not occur randomly, rather, individuals with similar socio-demographic and behavioral characteristics are more likely to interact among them, a phenomenon known as homophily. Concurrently, the same characteristics correlate with the adoption of prophylactic tools. As a result, the latter do not unfold homogeneously in a population, affecting their ability to control the spread of infectious diseases. Focusing on the case of vaccines, we reveal that, provided an imperfect vaccine efficacy, three different dynamical regimes exist as a function of the mixing rate between vaccinated and not vaccinated individuals. Specifically, depending on the epidemic pressure, vaccine coverage and efficacy, we find the final attack rate to decrease, increase or vary non monotonously with respect to the mixing rate. We corroborate the phenomenology through Monte Carlo simulations on a temporal real-world contact network. Besides vaccines, our findings hold for any prophylactic tool that reduces but not suppress the probability of transmission, indicating a universal mechanism in spreading dynamics.
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    Autor según el artículo: Burgio, Giulio; Steinegger, Benjamin; Arenas, Alex
    Departamento: Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques
    Autor/es de la URV: Arenas Moreno, Alejandro / Burgio, Giulio / Steinegger, Benjamin Franz Josef
    Código de proyecto: Grant agreement No. 713679 and No. 945413
    Palabras clave: Exemptions measles hesitancy
    Resumen: Physical contacts do not occur randomly, rather, individuals with similar socio-demographic and behavioral characteristics are more likely to interact among them, a phenomenon known as homophily. Concurrently, the same characteristics correlate with the adoption of prophylactic tools. As a result, the latter do not unfold homogeneously in a population, affecting their ability to control the spread of infectious diseases. Focusing on the case of vaccines, we reveal that, provided an imperfect vaccine efficacy, three different dynamical regimes exist as a function of the mixing rate between vaccinated and not vaccinated individuals. Specifically, depending on the epidemic pressure, vaccine coverage and efficacy, we find the final attack rate to decrease, increase or vary non monotonously with respect to the mixing rate. We corroborate the phenomenology through Monte Carlo simulations on a temporal real-world contact network. Besides vaccines, our findings hold for any prophylactic tool that reduces but not suppress the probability of transmission, indicating a universal mechanism in spreading dynamics.
    Áreas temáticas: Physics, multidisciplinary Physics and astronomy (miscellaneous) Physics and astronomy (all) General physics and astronomy Ciencias sociales
    Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Direcció de correo del autor: benjamin.steinegger@estudiants.urv.cat alexandre.arenas@urv.cat
    Identificador del autor: 0000-0002-0723-1536 0000-0003-0937-0334
    Fecha de alta del registro: 2024-09-28
    Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Enlace a la fuente original: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-022-00849-8
    Programa de financiación: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
    URL Documento de licencia: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Communications Physics. 5 (1): 70-
    Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Burgio, Giulio; Steinegger, Benjamin; Arenas, Alex (2022). Homophily impacts the success of vaccine roll-outs. Communications Physics, 5(1), 70-. DOI: 10.1038/s42005-022-00849-8
    Acrónimo: MFP; MFP Plus
    DOI del artículo: 10.1038/s42005-022-00849-8
    Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Año de publicación de la revista: 2022
    Acción del progama de financiación: Martí i Franquès COFUND Doctoral Programme
    Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications
  • Palabras clave:

    Physics and Astronomy (Miscellaneous),Physics, Multidisciplinary
    Exemptions
    measles
    hesitancy
    Physics, multidisciplinary
    Physics and astronomy (miscellaneous)
    Physics and astronomy (all)
    General physics and astronomy
    Ciencias sociales
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