Endogenous competition and the underrealized reproduction of infectious diseases | PNAS Scientific inquiry about the transmissibility of infectious diseases is largely based on the basic reproduction number (R0) and its derivations. Th...

Grateful for the support from my department. The paper is open access here: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2502676122

Endogenous competition and the underrealized reproduction of infectious diseases | PNAS Scientific inquiry about the transmissibility of infectious diseases is largely based on the basic reproduction number (R0) and its derivations. Th...

New paper in PNAS! With @phuang.bsky.social and Carter Butts. This paper highlights an overlooked mechanism, when multiple infectious individuals compete to infect the same susceptible person, the disease can reduce its own effective reproductive rate. #articles www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

My students are sweet 🥹

Would love to be added. Thanks for putting this together!