Assortative mixing among vaccination groups and biased estimation of reproduction numbers

Affiliations

• ¹ The Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA; Biostatistics Division, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
• ² Department of Mathematics, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, USA.
• ³ School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
• ⁴ Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
• ⁵ Biostatistics Division, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA; Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
• ⁶ Biostatistics Division, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA. Electronic address: kenah.1@osu.edu.