Impact of demographic disparities in social distancing and vaccination on influenza epidemics in urban and rural regions of the United States.
Background: Self-protective behaviors of social distancing and vaccination uptake vary by demographics and affect the transmission dynamics of influenza in the United States. By incorporating the socio-behavioral differences in social distancing and vaccination uptake into mathematical models of inf...
| Publicado en: | BMC Infectious Diseases Vol. 19; no. 1 |
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| Formato: | equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article |
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BioMed Central
3/4/2019
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