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This https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00264 has been replaced.
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Playing With Friends -- The Importance of Social Play During the COVID-19 Pandemic
In early 2020, the virus SARS-CoV-2 evolved into a new pandemic, forcing governments worldwide to establish social distancing measures. Consequently, people had to switch to online media, such as social networks or videotelephony, to keep in touch with friends and family. In this context, online games, combining entertainment with social interactions, also experienced a notable growth. In our work, we focused on the potential of games as a replacement for social contacts in the COVID-19 crisis.…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13618 has been replaced.
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Rational social distancing in epidemics with uncertain vaccination timing
During epidemics people may reduce their social and economic activity to lower their risk of infection. Such social distancing strategies will depend on information about the course of the epidemic but also on when they expect the epidemic to end, for instance due to vaccination. Typically it is difficult to make optimal decisions, because the available information is incomplete and uncertain. Here, we show how optimal decision-making depends on information about vaccination timing in a differe…

2022 retro-link! https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2022/01/15/why-covid-19-will-never-become-endemic/164216520013155 - Covid-19 will never become endemic.

Meta is matching existing fact-checks to "near-identical content on Threads", but says it will soon let fact-checkers rate content directly on Threads (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/16/yes-

Yes, Threads is running a fact-checking program, but the system isn't fully rolled out | TechCrunch
Threads, Meta's Twitter-like service and competitor to X, may be distancing itself from politics, but that doesn't mean it won't try to tackle the

🧵 Despite distancing itself from politics, the topic is dominating Threads’ trends
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/08/despite-distancing-itself-from-politics-the-topic-is-dominating-threads-trends/
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Despite distancing itself from politics, the topic is dominating Threads' trends | TechCrunch
Meta's newest app Threads, a would-be Twitter/X rival, may not want politics on its platform, but it's coming to the app anyway -- or so Threads' search

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Meta is matching existing fact-checks to "near-identical content on Threads", but says it will soon let fact-checkers rate content directly on Threads (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/16/yes-

Yes, Threads is running a fact-checking program, but the system isn't fully rolled out | TechCrunch
Threads, Meta's Twitter-like service and competitor to X, may be distancing itself from politics, but that doesn't mean it won't try to tackle the

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00731 has been replaced.
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The contact process with an asymptomatic state
In order to understand the cost of a potentially high infectiousness of symptomatic individuals or, on the contrary, the benefit of social distancing, quarantine, etc. in the course of an infectious disease, this paper considers a natural variant of the popular contact process that distinguishes between asymptomatic and symptomatic individuals. Infected individuals all recover at rate one but infect nearby individuals at a rate that depends on whether they show the symptoms of the disease or no…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10580 has been replaced.
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Towards Secure Virtual Elections: Multiparty Computation of Order Based Voting Rules
Electronic voting systems are essential for holding virtual elections, and the need for such systems increases due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the social distancing that it mandates. One of the main challenges in e-voting systems is to secure the voting process: namely, to certify that the computed results are consistent with the cast ballots, and that the privacy of the voters is preserved. We propose herein a secure voting protocol for elections that are governed by order-based voting rules.…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.02160 has been replaced.
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COVID-19 and income profile: How communities in the United States responded to mobility restrictions in the pandemic's early stages
Mobility interventions in communities play a critical role in containing a pandemic at an early stage. The real-world practice of social distancing can enlighten policymakers and help them implement more efficient and effective control measures. A lack of such research using real-world observations initiates this article. We analyzed the social distancing performance of 66,149 census tracts from 3,142 counties in the United States with a specific focus on income profile. Six daily mobility metr…

A Naive Model of Covid-19 Spread From A Dry Cough
Cristian Ramirez RodriguezSaint Mary's College of California
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06435 https:/…

A Naive Model of Covid-19 Spread From A Dry Cough
Health experts have suggested that social distancing measures are one of the most effective ways of preventing the spread of Covid-19. Research primarily focused on large Covid filled droplets suggested that these droplets can move further than regulated social distancing guidelines (2 meters apart) in the presence of wind. This project aims to model the paths of smaller Covid virions that last longer in the air to see if they also move beyond social distancing norms in the presence of wind. By…

MPC without Terminal Ingredients Tailored to the SEIR Compartmental Epidemic Model
Willem Esterhuizen, Philipp Sauerteig, Stefan Streif, Karl Worthmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09151

MPC without Terminal Ingredients Tailored to the SEIR Compartmental Epidemic Model
We consider the SEIR epidemic model subject to state and input constraints (a cap on the proportion of infectuous individuals and limits on the allowed social distancing and quarantining measures, respectively). We present a model predictive control (MPC) formulation tailored to this system without terminal conditions in the recursively solved finite-horizon optimal control problem. We rigorously show recursive feasibility and asymptotic stability of the disease-free equilibrium w.r.t. the MPC …

Social Dilemma of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions
Alina Glaubitz, Feng Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07829 https://arxiv.org/pdf/240…

Social Dilemma of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions
In fighting infectious diseases posing a global health threat, ranging from influenza to Zika, non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI), such as social distancing and face covering, remain mitigation measures public health can resort to. However, the success of NPI lies in sufficiently high levels of collective compliance, otherwise giving rise to waves of infection incidences that are not only driven by pathogen evolution but also changing vigilance in the population. Here we show that complianc…