Vector-borne disinformation during disasters and emergencies

Pelen, Neslihan Nesliye; Gölgeli, Meltem

doi:10.1016/j.physa.2022.127157

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“…The Holling Type II functional response originally occurs in predator-prey systems and is characterized by a slowing rate of intake based on the assumption that the consumer's capacity to process food is limited. However, this idea is commonly applied to rumor-spreading models by treating the news as a food [17,33]. Moreover, we assume that the deniers may influence skeptics and infect them.…”

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“…In social and human sciences, mathematical models in epidemiology have been employed to determine the dynamics of changes in society's beliefs and voters' decision-making mechanisms in elections [27,31]. In addition, studies focusing on the effects of awareness programs on the spread of infectious diseases are also encountered in the literature [12,26,33,34,44].…”

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The contagion dynamics of vaccine skepticism

Gölgeli

2022

Hacettepe Journal of Mathematics and Statistics

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In this manuscript, we discuss the spread of vaccine refusal through a non-linear mathematical model involving the interaction of vaccine believers, vaccine deniers, and the media sources. Furthermore, we hypothesize that the media coverage of disease-related deaths has the potential to increase the number of people who believe in vaccines. We analyze the dynamics of the mathematical model, determine the equilibria and investigate their stability. Our theoretical approach is dedicated to emphasizing the importance of convincing people to believe in the vaccine without getting into any medical arguments. For this purpose, we present numerical simulations that support the obtained analytical results for different scenarios.

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confidence: 99%