{"id":8138,"date":"2020-07-13T09:39:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T16:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8138"},"modified":"2021-03-31T09:39:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:39:49","slug":"a-minimal-model-for-household-effects-in-epidemics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/13\/a-minimal-model-for-household-effects-in-epidemics-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Minimal Model for Household Effects in Epidemics"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"45\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Huber et al. present a mathematical model that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">reflects<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">effect of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">social distancing<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0interventions on contact structures<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, allowing for fast transmission within households and slow transmission between households. They show that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">epidemic growth<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0depends on household size,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">but this effect is attenuated<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">beyond a threshold\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(following a square<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">root law)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">suggesting that establishment of larger households (i.e., social circles) may be preferred to re-integration of all contacts during re-opening.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Huber et al. (July 11, 2020). A Minimal Model for Household Effects in Epidemics.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Pre-print downloaded July 13 from\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.07.09.20150227\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.07.09.20150227<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[pre-print, not peer-reviewed]\u00a0Huber et al. present a mathematical model that\u00a0reflects\u00a0the\u00a0effect of\u00a0social distancing\u00a0interventions on contact structures, allowing for fast transmission within households and slow transmission between households. They show that\u00a0epidemic growth\u00a0depends on household size,\u00a0but this effect is attenuated\u00a0beyond a threshold\u00a0(following a square\u00a0root law),\u00a0suggesting that establishment of larger households (i.e., social circles) may be preferred to re-integration&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/13\/a-minimal-model-for-household-effects-in-epidemics-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-8138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8139,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8138\/revisions\/8139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8138"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}