Behavioural Epidemiology of infectious diseases: going beyond its limits: why not?
- Authors: Alberto D’Onofrio, Samantha Ajovalasit, Pierre–Alexandre Bliman, Alessio Carrozzo-Magli, Piero Manfredi
- Publication year: 2021
- Type: Abstract in atti di convegno pubblicato in volume
- OA Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10447/642080
Abstract
The spread and control of current Covid19 pandemic are much better modellable and understandable by adopting the paradigm of the behavioral epidemiology of infectious diseases (BEID): social distancing; public health authorities interventions, acceptance of the forthcoming vaccines, rational vs irrational behaviors, negationism etc [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. However, even BEID has learned a lot from what we know of current pandemic [7]. The first and main lesson we have learnt is that we must go well beyond the current limits of BEID. Namely (non exhaustive list!!!):