Individual risk perception and empirical social structures shape the dynamics of infectious disease outbreaks
Fig 4
Degree heterogeneity and community structure affect hospitalized peak in real networks.
Each dot represents degree heterogeneity as a function of modularity for each real network considered in this study. Model dynamics is evaluated at fixed population fraction of risk-deniers (α = 0.5) a: Peak of hospitalized patients. Results show that the lower are values of modularity and heterogeneity, the higher is hospitalized peak. b: Peak of hospitalized patients evaluated with respect to the one estimated at α = 0.0, as percentage increase. Networks with high modularity and heterogeneity show higher percentage peak increase.