Fig. 2

Timeline of vaccination schedule and infection seedings with examples of infection time series. There is a vaccination rollout that occurs in three consecutive stages, starting at \(t=0\), \(t=182\), and \(t=364\) and ending at \(t=546\). The first wave and the second wave are generated by randomly seeding 100 infections in the population (which could occur due to a super-spreader event, for example) at times \(t=225\) and \(t=450\). The example time series are for a second wave due to the same variant as the first wave