🏠 The Household SIR Model: Bridging Micro-Scale Contacts and Macro-Scale Spread 📈

🧬 Overview and Conceptual Motivation Classical epidemic models typically assume a well-mixed population in which every individual has an equal probability of contacting any other. The Household SIR model relaxes this assumption by introducing a realistic social hierarchy. Transmission is concentrated within small, intimate clusters such as households, while interactions across the broader community occur … Read more