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Mitigating COVID-19 outbreaks in workplaces and schools by hybrid telecommuting

Fig 4

Impact of the strategies for the high school contact graph.

The x-coordinate gives the value of the baseline reproduction number (mean number of persons infected by index case). For each strategy the y-coordinate gives the mean value of the effective reproduction number as a result of using the strategy. Thus, for our baseline value (dotted vertical line), doing nothing leads to R_e = 1.25 > 1, whereas, as long as , all strategies lead to R_e < 1. For each curve, the shaded areas correspond to 95% confidence intervals on the estimate of (calculated as a function of the model parameters: horizontal error bar) and on the estimate of R_e (as a function of the strategy: vertical error bar).

doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009264.g004