Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: The advantage of self-protecting interventions in mitigating epidemic
  circulation at the community level   Protecting interventions of many types (both pharmaceutical and
non-pharmaceutical) can be deployed against the spreading of a communicable
disease, as the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically shown. Here we
investigate in detail the effects at the population level of interventions that
provide an asymmetric protection between the people involved in a single
interaction. Masks of different filtration types, either protecting mainly the
wearer or the contacts of the wearer, are a prominent example of these
interventions. By means of analytical calculations and extensive simulations of
simple epidemic models on networks, we show that interventions protecting more
efficiently the adopter (e.g the mask wearer) are more effective than
interventions protecting primarily the contacts of the adopter in reducing the
prevalence of the disease and the number of concurrently infected individuals
("flattening the curve"). This observation is backed up by the study of a more
realistic epidemic model on an empirical network representing the patterns of
contacts in the city of Portland. Our results point out that promoting
wearer-protecting face masks and other self-protecting interventions, though
deemed selfish and inefficient, can actually be a better strategy to
efficiently curtail pandemic spreading.

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The categories of this paper are: funct-an
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The categories of this paper are: math
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The categories of this paper are: solv-int
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The categories of this paper are: alg-geom
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The categories of this paper are: comp-gas
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The categories of this paper are: patt-sol
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex
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The categories of this paper are: supr-con
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-ex
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-th
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The categories of this paper are: chem-ph
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The categories of this paper are: adap-org
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The categories of this paper are: stat
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The categories of this paper are: eess
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The categories of this paper are: astro-ph
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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph