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SUBMITTER: Carrignon S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8752029 | biostudies-literature | 2022
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Carrignon Simon S Bentley R Alexander RA Silk Matthew M Fefferman Nina H NH
PloS one 20220111 1
The global pandemic of COVID-19 revealed the dynamic heterogeneity in how individuals respond to infection risks, government orders, and community-specific social norms. Here we demonstrate how both individual observation and social learning are likely to shape behavioral, and therefore epidemiological, dynamics over time. Efforts to delay and reduce infections can compromise their own success, especially when disease risk and social learning interact within sub-populations, as when people obser ...[more]