Did every susceptible individual in the grid become sick or were there situations in which individuals recovered prior to passing on the illness. If so, for which virus did this occur? Why might this be?
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Disease Spread with Recovery Consider the far more likely scenario in which disease circulates within a population, such that individuals recover from the disease unharmed but are still susceptible to reinfection. Again, let us denote the fraction of infected individuals as I. The population can be modeled as a discrete-time dynamical system that represents this scenario, given by: I(t+1) = I(t) + a - b*I(t) where a is the positive parameter that represents the per capita rate at which susceptible individuals become infected, and b is the positive parameter that represents the rate at which infected individuals recover. Note that in this model, a and b are constants. Again, let's find the equilibrium points for this new system algebraically (your answers will depend on the parameter k).
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The following question is about SIR (susceptible, infected, recovered) models. Remember, in SIR models you can plot the number of susceptible (S), infected (I), and recovered (R) individuals on the y-axis as a function of time (on the x-axis), resulting in a curve for each of the three groups. In your reading, a more realistic model of measles outbreaks is presented. Unlike the simple SIR model discussed earlier in the module, this model includes births, and it predicts that measles outbreaks should cycle over time. How do births affect the disease dynamics? A) Births increase the number of recovered (resistant) individuals in the population. B) Births increase the number of susceptible individuals in the population. C) Births increase the probability that infected people transmit the disease. D) Births themselves occur in cycles, decreasing herd immunity in pulses.
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