Social and behavioural factors are critical to the emergence, spread and containment of
human disease, and are key determinants of the course, duration and outcomes of disease …

Background Given the importance of person to person transmission in the spread of
infectious diseases, it is critically important to ensure that human behaviour with respect to …

Purpose Within a very short period of time, the worldwide pandemic triggered by the novel
coronavirus has not only claimed numerous lives but also caused severe limitations to daily …

We study targeted lockdowns in a multigroup SIR model where infection, hospitalization,
and fatality rates vary between groups—in particular between the “young,” the “middle …

This article contributes to the assessment of public policies to control the incidence of COVID-
19 in several ways.(1) It contains a brief historical and comparative overview of selected …

We develop a quantitative framework for exploring how individuals trade off the utility benefit
of social activity against the internal and external health risks that come with social …

We develop a multi-risk SIR model (MR-SIR) where infection, hospitalization and fatality
rates vary between groups—in particular between the “young”,“the middle-aged” and the …

Background The medical, societal, and economic impact of the coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) pandemic has unknown effects on overall population mortality. Previous models …

We extend the baseline Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Recovered (SEIR) infectious
disease epidemiology model to understand the role of testing and case-dependent …

Human spatial behavior has been the focus of hundreds of previous research studies.
However, the conclusions and generalizability of previous studies on interpersonal distance …