Nonlinear behavioral contagion creates multiple disease-free equilibria, allowing an epidemic to trigger self-sustaining behavior uptake that eliminates the disease even at high R0 values.
Wearing face masks to protect oneself and/or others: counter-intuitive results from a simple epidemic model accounting for selfish and altruistic human behavior
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How complex behavioural contagion can prevent infectious diseases from becoming endemic
Nonlinear behavioral contagion creates multiple disease-free equilibria, allowing an epidemic to trigger self-sustaining behavior uptake that eliminates the disease even at high R0 values.