Impact of temporal correlations on high risk outbreaks of independent and cooperative SIR dynamics.

We first propose a quantitative approach to detect high risk outbreaks of independent and coinfective SIR dynamics on three empirical networks: a school, a conference and a hospital contact network. This measurement is based on the k-means clustering method and identifies proper samples for calculat...

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Main Authors: Sina Sajjadi, Mohammad Reza Ejtehadi, Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253563
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author Sina Sajjadi
Mohammad Reza Ejtehadi
Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad
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description We first propose a quantitative approach to detect high risk outbreaks of independent and coinfective SIR dynamics on three empirical networks: a school, a conference and a hospital contact network. This measurement is based on the k-means clustering method and identifies proper samples for calculating the mean outbreak size and the outbreak probability. Then we systematically study the impact of different temporal correlations on high risk outbreaks over the original and differently shuffled counterparts of each network. We observe that, on the one hand, in the coinfection process, randomization of the sequence of the events increases the mean outbreak size of high-risk cases. On the other hand, these correlations do not have a consistent effect on the independent infection dynamics, and can either decrease or increase this mean. Randomization of the daily pattern correlations has no strong impact on the size of the outbreak in either the coinfection or the independent spreading cases. We also observe that an increase in the mean outbreak size does not always coincide with an increase in the outbreak probability; therefore, we argue that merely considering the mean outbreak size of all realizations may lead us into falsely estimating the outbreak risks. Our results suggest that some sort of contact randomization in the organizational level in schools, events or hospitals might help to suppress the spreading dynamics while the risk of an outbreak is high.
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spelling doaj.art-552f5932a0c7435fa102bab7bdd006a62022-12-21T21:24:21ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032021-01-01167e025356310.1371/journal.pone.0253563Impact of temporal correlations on high risk outbreaks of independent and cooperative SIR dynamics.Sina SajjadiMohammad Reza EjtehadiFakhteh GhanbarnejadWe first propose a quantitative approach to detect high risk outbreaks of independent and coinfective SIR dynamics on three empirical networks: a school, a conference and a hospital contact network. This measurement is based on the k-means clustering method and identifies proper samples for calculating the mean outbreak size and the outbreak probability. Then we systematically study the impact of different temporal correlations on high risk outbreaks over the original and differently shuffled counterparts of each network. We observe that, on the one hand, in the coinfection process, randomization of the sequence of the events increases the mean outbreak size of high-risk cases. On the other hand, these correlations do not have a consistent effect on the independent infection dynamics, and can either decrease or increase this mean. Randomization of the daily pattern correlations has no strong impact on the size of the outbreak in either the coinfection or the independent spreading cases. We also observe that an increase in the mean outbreak size does not always coincide with an increase in the outbreak probability; therefore, we argue that merely considering the mean outbreak size of all realizations may lead us into falsely estimating the outbreak risks. Our results suggest that some sort of contact randomization in the organizational level in schools, events or hospitals might help to suppress the spreading dynamics while the risk of an outbreak is high.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253563
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Impact of temporal correlations on high risk outbreaks of independent and cooperative SIR dynamics.
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title Impact of temporal correlations on high risk outbreaks of independent and cooperative SIR dynamics.
title_full Impact of temporal correlations on high risk outbreaks of independent and cooperative SIR dynamics.
title_fullStr Impact of temporal correlations on high risk outbreaks of independent and cooperative SIR dynamics.
title_full_unstemmed Impact of temporal correlations on high risk outbreaks of independent and cooperative SIR dynamics.
title_short Impact of temporal correlations on high risk outbreaks of independent and cooperative SIR dynamics.
title_sort impact of temporal correlations on high risk outbreaks of independent and cooperative sir dynamics
url https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253563
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