Game theoretic modeling of infectious disease transmission with delayed emergence of symptoms (Q2221266)

This paper utilizes an evolutionary game approach with a public goods setting on a spatial structure with four categories of disease status: susceptible individuals (S), infected individuals (I), recovered individuals (R), and vaccinated individuals (V). The main purpose is to examine the effect of incubation period on the dynamic of epidemic. The results show that, in comparison to the same model without considering incubation period, time delay results in fewer vaccinated individuals, fewer free-riders, and more infected individuals. Moreover, the results show that, when the incubation period is longer relative to the total time of an infection, there will be more infected individuals and fewer vaccinated and free-riders.