Planning horizon affects prophylactic decision-making and epidemic dynamics

Luis G. Nardin; Craig R. Miller; Benjamin J. Ridenhour; Stephen M. Krone; Paul Joyce; Bert O. Baumgaertner

where s, p, i, and r are the proportion of susceptible, prophylactic, infectious, and recovered 99 agents in the population. The parameters β, γ, and δ are transmission, recovery, and decision 100 rates, whose equivalent probabilities are, respectively, transmission (b S ), recovery (g), and 101 decision (d) ( Table 2 ). The parameter ρ refers to the reduction in transmission rate when 102 adopting prophylactic behavior. We convert between rates and probabilities using equations Table 2 . Disease parameters in rates and probabilities.