People change their behaviour during an epidemic. Infectious members of a population may reduce the number of contacts they make with other people because of the physical effects of their illness and possibly because of public health announcements asking them to do so in order to decrease the number of new infections, while susceptible members of the population may reduce the number of contacts they make in order to try to avoid becoming infected.
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Brauer, F. (2011). A simple model for behaviour change in epidemics. BMC Public Health, 11(S1). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-s1-s3
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