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Fig. 2

From: Observations and conversations: how communities learn about infection risk can impact the success of non-pharmaceutical interventions against epidemics

Fig. 2

The relationship between the height of the epidemic peak (i.e. maximum simultaneous number of symptomatic [I2] individuals) and strength of the Awareness Effect (unitless; the extent to which individuals become more concerned for each symptomatic network neighbour they have; see Supplementary Material) when Social Construction is weak (< 0.3). An individual learns of symptomatic contacts from a) their communication layer, b) their infection layer (learning from 100% of contacts) and c) both layers together. The colour of points in panels (a-c) indicates the strength of the Reassurance Effect: yellow indicating a strong Reassurance Effect through to purple indicating a weak Reassurance Effect. In panel d) we contrast the height of the epidemic peak directly for selected values of the Awareness Effect. Boxes indicate the interquartile range, the bold horizontal line the median and the whiskers extend to the full range of the data

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