Dynamics of SIR model with heterogeneous response to intervention policy

Dmitrii Rachinskii and Samiha Rouf

Theoretical Population Biology, 2022, vol. 146, issue C, 71-85

Abstract: In classical epidemic theory, behavior is assumed to be stationary. In recent years, epidemic models have been extended to include behaviors that transition in response to the current state of the epidemic. However, it is widely known that human behavior can exhibit strong history-dependence as a consequence of learned experiences. This history-dependence is similar to hysteresis phenomena that have been well-studied in control theory. To illustrate the importance of history-dependence for epidemic theory, we study dynamics of a variant of the SIRS model where individuals exhibit lazy-switch responses to prevalence dynamics, based on the Preisach hysteresis operator. The resulting model can possess a continuum of endemic equilibrium states characterized by different proportions of susceptible, infected and recovered populations. We consider how the limit point of the epidemic trajectory and the infection peak along this trajectory depend on the degree of heterogeneity of the response. Our approach supports the argument that public health responses during the emergence of a new disease can have fundamental long-term consequences for subsequent management efforts.

Keywords: Switched transmission rate; Heterogeneous response; Switched system; Preisach operator; Hysteresis; Continuum of equilibrium states (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2022.06.003

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