{"id":2539,"date":"2020-12-03T08:40:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T16:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2539"},"modified":"2020-12-04T08:42:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T16:42:08","slug":"awareness-driven-behavior-changes-can-shift-the-shape-of-epidemics-away-from-peaks-and-toward-plateaus-shoulders-and-oscillations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/03\/awareness-driven-behavior-changes-can-shift-the-shape-of-epidemics-away-from-peaks-and-toward-plateaus-shoulders-and-oscillations\/","title":{"rendered":"Awareness-Driven Behavior Changes Can Shift the Shape of Epidemics Away from Peaks and toward Plateaus, Shoulders, and Oscillations"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Weitz et al. show that compared to more established models that predict a symmetric peak in COVID-19 cases and deaths, accounting for awareness-driven behavior in models better fit with the asymmetrical peaks observed in actual COVID-19 fatality data, which typically show a plateau after a peak. The authors suggest that their model highlights the potential role of behavior fatigue in complying with interventions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Weitz et al. (Dec 1, 2020). Awareness-Driven Behavior Changes Can Shift the Shape of Epidemics Away from Peaks and toward Plateaus, Shoulders, and Oscillations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2009911117\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2009911117<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weitz et al. show that compared to more established models that predict a symmetric peak in COVID-19 cases and deaths, accounting for awareness-driven behavior in models better fit with the asymmetrical peaks observed in actual COVID-19 fatality data, which typically show a plateau after a peak. The authors suggest that their model highlights the potential&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/03\/awareness-driven-behavior-changes-can-shift-the-shape-of-epidemics-away-from-peaks-and-toward-plateaus-shoulders-and-oscillations\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-2539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-modeling-prediction","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2540,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions\/2540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2539"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}