Rational social distancing policy during epidemics with limited healthcare capacity
Fig 5
Course of the epidemic with government intervention.
Government intervention ε assuming (A) constant infection cost αg and cost-free intervention γg = 0, (B) a healthcare threshold (HT) and cost-free intervention γg = 0, and (C) a healthcare threshold and costly intervention γg = 0.5; all for a range of ag or a1g, respectively, as marked by circles in Fig 4A and listed in the legends of (G-I), with individuals assuming that α0 = 100. (D-F) Equilibrium population behaviour k in response to ε of (A-C), respectively. (G-I) Infectious i over time, corresponding to the behaviour shown in (D-F), respectively. Here, the y-axis has linear scale between 0 and 10−2 and logarithmic scale above that.