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On critical vaccination coverage in multitype epidemics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2016
Abstract
Consider an epidemic outbreak in a large population resulting in an overall proportion infected p~. The proportion needed to be vaccinated in order to prevent the epidemic, the critical vaccination coverage vc, depends on individual and social heterogeneities in the population. In the present note it is shown that vc is larger if, as is likely, individuals differ in terms of susceptibility than if they are equally susceptible.
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