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  • Epidemiology
  • Game Theory
  • Decision Science

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  • Individuals reduce social and economic activity during epidemics to mitigate infection risk.
  • Optimal decision-making during epidemics is challenging due to incomplete information and uncertainty regarding epidemic course and resolution, such as vaccination.
  • Social distancing effectiveness is influenced by perceptions of epidemic duration and potential interventions like vaccines.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze how information about vaccination timing affects optimal decision-making during epidemics.
  • To model social distancing as a Nash equilibrium in a differential game incorporating probabilistic vaccine arrival.
  • To investigate the impact of the probability distribution of vaccine arrival on social distancing behavior.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a differential game model to represent individual decision-making during an epidemic.
  • Incorporated a probability distribution to describe the timing of vaccine arrival.
  • Analyzed Nash equilibria to predict optimal social distancing strategies under varying vaccination scenarios.

Main Results:

  • Predicted that earlier expected vaccination and a sharper probability distribution of vaccine arrival lead to increased social distancing.
  • Found that significant deviations in social distancing from a no-vaccination scenario only occur if vaccination is expected before the epidemic naturally concludes.
  • Demonstrated that the vaccination time distribution functions as a generalized form of discounting, analogous to exponential discounting for exponential distributions.

Conclusions:

  • Vaccination timing uncertainty significantly shapes epidemic control strategies.
  • Probabilistic information about vaccine arrival is crucial for optimizing public health interventions and individual behavior during epidemics.
  • The study provides a framework for understanding how expectations about future interventions influence present-day risk-mitigation behaviors.