Epidemic paradox induced by awareness driven network dynamics Permalink

Csegő Balázs Kolok, Gergely Ódor, Dániel Keliger, Márton Karsai
Published in Phys. Rev. Research, 2025
One sentence abstract:We study stationary epidemic processes in scale-free networks with local awareness behavior adopted by only infected or all nodes, and paradoxically, we find and prove that the former scenario results in a smaller infection while more nodes can be aware in the latter.