The advantage of self-protecting interventions in mitigating epidemic circulation at the community level.

ABSTRACT: Protecting interventions of many types (both pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical) can be deployed against the spreading of a communicable disease, as the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically shown. Here we investigate in detail the effects at the population level of interventions that provide an asymmetric protection between the people involved in a single interaction. Masks of different filtration types, either protecting mainly the wearer or the contacts of the wearer, are a prominent example of these interventions. By means of analytical calculations and extensive simulations of simple epidemic models on networks, we show that interventions protecting more efficiently the adopter (e.g the mask wearer) are more effective than interventions protecting primarily the contacts of t

SUBMITTER: Pastor-Satorras R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9509388 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature