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Interplay between cost and benefits triggers nontrivial vaccination uptake

Steinegger, Benjamin
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Cardillo, Alessio
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De Los Rios, Paolo  
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February 2, 2018
Physical Review E

The containment of epidemic spreading is a major challenge in science. Vaccination, whenever available, is the best way to prevent the spreading, because it eventually immunizes individuals. However, vaccines are not perfect, and total immunization is not guaranteed. Imperfect immunization has driven the emergence of antivaccine movements that totally alter the predictions about the epidemic incidence. Here, we propose a mathematically solvable mean-field vaccination model to mimic the spontaneous adoption of vaccines against influenzalike diseases and the expected epidemic incidence. The results are in agreement with extensive Monte Carlo simulations of the epidemics and vaccination coevolutionary processes. Interestingly, the results reveal a nonmonotonic behavior on the vaccination coverage that increases with the imperfection of the vaccine and after decreases. This apparent counterintuitive behavior is analyzed and understood from stability principles of the proposed mathematical model.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevE.97.032308
Author(s)
Steinegger, Benjamin
Cardillo, Alessio
De Los Rios, Paolo  
Gómez-Gardeñes, Jesús
Arenas, Alex
Date Issued

2018-02-02

Published in
Physical Review E
Volume

97

Issue

3

Article Number

032308

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REVIEWED

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March 22, 2018
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