Simulating nationwide coupled disease and fear spread in an agent-based model
Human behavior and disease spread evolve together over the course of any disease outbreak. We present a dynamic model of that relationship based on the coupled spread of a disease and fear of that disease, and implement this model in a simulator, EpiCast, that simulates disease spread between individuals in a realistic synthetic population. In our model, fear of the disease spreads through both in-person contact and broadcast media, driving people to adopt behaviors that reduce disease spread. In order to better understand the dynamics of our model, we create and compare a range of compartmental surrogate models to analyze the impact of including various disease states. We also compare how Epicast-simulated outbreaks unfold across a number of scenarios with different types of behavioral responses to fear and a range of different parameter values. We find that the addition of asymptomatic, exposed, and presymptomatic disease states can impact both the rate at which an outbreak progresses and its overall trajectory. In addition, the combination of non-local fear spread through broadcasters and strong preventative measures by afraid individuals generally produces multiple epidemic waves, which only occur for a narrow range of parameter values with purely local fear spread.
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