Separable mixing: the general formulation and a particular example focusing on mask efficiency
The aim of this short note is twofold. We formulate the general Kermack-McKendrick epidemic model incorporating static heterogeneity and show how it simplifies to a scalar Renewal Equation (RE) when separable mixing is assumed. A key feature is that all information about the heterogeneity is encoded in one nonlinear real valued function of a real variable. Inspired by work of R. Pastor-Satorras and C. Castellano, we next investigate mask efficiency and demonstrate that it is straightforward to rederive from the RE their main conclusion, that the best way to protect the population as a whole is to protect yourself. Thus we establish that this conclusion is robust, in the sense that it also holds outside the world of network models.
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