Relaxing restrictions at the pace of vaccination increases freedom and guards against further COVID-19 waves

• Simon Bauer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Simon Bauer, Sebastian Contreras

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

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9359-9419

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• Sebastian Contreras ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Simon Bauer, Sebastian Contreras

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany, Centre for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8909-774X

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• Jonas Dehning,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1728-2505

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• Matthias Linden,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8439-653X

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• Emil Iftekhar,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0188-500X

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• Sebastian B. Mohr,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4721-0561

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• Alvaro Olivera-Nappa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6053-7019

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• Viola Priesemann

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: viola.priesemann@ds.mpg.de

  Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany, Institute for the Dynamics of Complex Systems, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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