Modeling and Simulating Online Panic in an Epidemic Complexity System: An Agent-Based Approach

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(a) The period of transmission of the disease; (b) the influence of the social distancing policy. The following categories are used—susceptible, i.e., healthy people who have never been infected; exposed, i.e., infected persons going through the incubation period of the disease; infected, i.e., asymptomatic infected persons or infected individuals exhibiting significant symptoms; and recovered, i.e., those recovered from infection who cannot become infected again.

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