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It's been controversial whether re-opening school will facilitate viral spread among household communities with mitigation strategies such as mask-wearing in place. In this work, we propose an epidemiological model that explores the viral transmission over the multi-layer contact network composed of the school layer and community layer with population heterogeneity on mask-wearing behavior. We derive analytical expressions for three key epidemiological quantities: the probability of emergence, the epidemic threshold, and the expected epidemic size. In particular, we show how the aforementioned quantities depend on the structure of the multi-layer contact network, viral transmission dynamics, and the distribution of the different types of masks within the population. Through extensive simulations, our analytical results show near-perfect agreement with the simulation results with a limited number of nodes. Utilizing the model, we study the impact of the opening/closure of the school layer on the viral transmission dynamics with various mask-wearing scenarios. Interestingly, we found that it's safe to open the school layer with the proper proportion of good-quality masks in the popul

Author

Tian, Yurun; Yagan, Osman

Published

2022

Language

EN