Optimal control prevents itself from eradicating stochastic disease epidemics

Rachel Russell; Nik J Cunniffe

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012781

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Optimal control prevents itself from eradicating stochastic disease epidemics

Rachel Russell ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: rjt42@cam.ac.uk

Affiliation Theoretical and Computational Epidemiology, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0009-0005-9245-2665

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Nik J Cunniffe

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Theoretical and Computational Epidemiology, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3533-8672

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Optimal control prevents itself from eradicating stochastic disease epidemics

Rachel Russell,
Nik J Cunniffe

Published: February 18, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012781

About the Authors

Rachel Russell

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: rjt42@cam.ac.uk

Affiliation Theoretical and Computational Epidemiology, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0009-0005-9245-2665

Nik J Cunniffe

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Theoretical and Computational Epidemiology, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3533-8672

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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