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We are racing to vaccinate the US and worldwide population for COVID19 for many reasons: to prevent deaths, limit emergence of dangerous strains, and achieve herd immunity. Let’s talk about the spread of vaccination behavior. 1/
We can think of some of our behavioral responses to an epidemic like #COVID19 (e.g., mask wearing, getting vaccinated) as a kind of *social contagion*, spreading from person to person, which in turn addresses the *biological contagion*. 2/
In 2017, we published a reconstruction of the temporal dynamics of the spread of vaccination behavior and of the H1N1 influenza virus during the 2009 pandemic in a circumscribed social network of @harvard students. nature.com/articles/srep4… via @SciReports @nature 3/
