Purpose Policymakers have struggled to maintain SARS-CoV-2 transmission at levels that
are manageable to contain the COVID-19 disease burden while enabling a maximum of …

Competing behavior spreading dynamics occur not only through pairwise interactions but
also through higher-order collective interactions. The simplicial complex is widely adopted to …

We study how the herd immunity threshold and the expected epidemic size depend on
homophily with respect to vaccine adoption. We find that the presence of homophily …

As the world becomes ever more connected, the chance of pandemics increases as well.
The recent COVID-19 pandemic and the concurrent global mass vaccine roll-out provides …

In this study, we discuss the impacts of assortative mixing by mask-wearing on the
effectiveness of mask use in suppressing the propagation of epidemics. We employ the …

People are more likely to interact with other people of their ethnicity—a phenomenon known
as ethnic homophily. In the United States, people of color are known to hold proportionately …

The interplay of biological, social, structural, and random factors makes disease forecasting
extraordinarily complex. The course of an epidemic exhibits average growth dynamics …

Many countries worldwide had difficulties reaching a sufficiently high vaccination uptake
during the COVID-19 pandemic. Given this context, we collected data from a panel of 30,000 …

Vaccine hesitancy is an inevitable risk for societies as it contributes to outbreaks of diseases.
Prior research suggests that vaccination decisions of individuals tend to spread within social …

Population heterogeneity, especially in individuals' contact networks, plays an important role
in transmission dynamics of infectious diseases. For vaccine-preventable diseases …