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Record W4408315742 · doi:10.3934/mbe.2025033

Behaviour quantification of public health policy adoption - the case of non-pharmaceutical measures during COVID-19

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Rhiannon Loster, Sarah Smook, Lia Humphrey, David Lyver, Zahra Mohammadi, Edward W. Thommes, M Cojocaru

Bibliographic record

VenueMathematical Biosciences & Engineering · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMathematics
TopicCOVID-19 epidemiological studies
Canadian institutionsSanofi (Canada)University of Guelph
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)2019-20 coronavirus outbreakSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Public healthPandemicPublic health policyBusinessHealth policyVirologyMedicineNursingInfectious disease (medical specialty)

Abstract

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In this work, we provide estimates of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) adoption and its effects on the COVID-19 disease transmission across the province of Ontario, Canada, in 2020. Using freely available data, we estimate perceived risks of infection and a personal discomfort with complying with NPIs for Ontarians across 34 public health units. With the use of game theory, we model a time series of decision making processes in each public health region to extract an estimate of the adoption level of NPIs from March to December 2020. In conjunction with a susceptible-exposed-recovered-isolated compartmental model for Ontario, we are able to estimate a province-wide effectiveness level of NPIs. Last but not least, we show the model's versatility by applying it to Pennsylvania and Georgia in the United States.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.023
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.558
Threshold uncertainty score0.985

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.023
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.326
GPT teacher head0.485
Teacher spread0.158 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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