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Table 1 Simulation parameters, their values and sources, used in the experiments

From: Impact of demographic disparities in social distancing and vaccination on influenza epidemics in urban and rural regions of the United States

Variables

Values

Source

Population size (number of individuals)

Miami-Dade (2,169,349), Montgomery (77, 820)

Synthetic populations [5, 24, 41]

Total number of daily contacts between individuals

Miami-Dade (55,187,587), Montgomery (2,019,222)

Synthetic populations [5, 24, 41]

Transmission rate

Miami-Dade (0.00010), Montgomery (0.00018)

Calibrated for each region to generate an attack rate of 25% in both the regions

Attack rate (Cumulative infections)

25%

[42]

Serial interval

Miami-Dade (2.65 days), Montgomery (2.59 days)

Estimated from our disease model [43]

Interventions

Vaccination and/or social distancing

 

Latent period

1 day [s.d.: 0.63]

[44, 45]

Infectious period

2 days [s.d.: 1.06]

[44, 45]

Symptomatic proportion

67%

[46]

Asymptomatic infectivity

33%

[47–49]

Vaccine efficacy

20%, 40%, 60%

[50]

Simulation days

200 days

Assumed

Initial number of infections (seeds)

20 for both Miami-Dade and Montgomery

Assumed

Initial number of susceptible individuals

Everyone, except the seeds

Assumed

Number of replicates

25

Assumed

Number of scenarios

2 (compliance probability estimated with, and without predictors)

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