Leveraging Opinions and Vaccination to Eradicate Networked Epidemics

2023/04/25 by Humphrey C. H. Leung, Zhuocong Li, Leung, Humphrey +5 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · Mathematics · #Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence #COVID-19 epidemiological studies #Complex Network Analysis Techniques

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2304.12516

Abstract

We introduce a multi-layer networked compartmental SIRS-V_o model that captures opinion dynamics, disease spread, risk perception, and self-interest vaccine-uptake behavior in an epidemic process. We characterize the target vaccination criterion of the proposed model and conditions that guarantee the criterion is obtainable by influencing opinions on disease prevalence. We leverage this result to design an eradication strategy that leverages opinions and vaccination. Through numerical simulations, we show that the proposed eradication strategy is able to stabilize the epidemic process around a healthy state equilibrium, and the outbreak rebounds after the control signal is relaxed.

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