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SUBMITTER: O'Dea EB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6030631 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
O'Dea Eamon B EB Park Andrew W AW Drake John M JM
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 20180601 143
The epidemic threshold of the susceptible-infected-recovered model is a boundary separating parameters that permit epidemics from those that do not. This threshold corresponds to parameters where the system's equilibrium becomes unstable. Consequently, we use the average rate at which deviations from the equilibrium shrink to define a distance to this threshold. However, the vital dynamics of the host population may occur slowly even when transmission is far from threshold levels. Here, we show ...[more]