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465— Modeling Vaccine Efficacy For Tuberculosis In A Prison Population, Kaitlyn Mundackal
465— Modeling Vaccine Efficacy For Tuberculosis In A Prison Population, Kaitlyn Mundackal
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Tuberculosis is a highly contagious disease and is particularly problematic in confined communities such as prisons. I simulated how Tuberculosis moves through a prison population and tested how much vaccination effort is needed to control its spread. To explore this, I tested adding ever increasing numbers of randomly placed edges in a network and determined the size of the largest component. Afterwards, I removed edges in the model using two different methods, one illustrating if the edges were removed randomly and the other starting with prisoners that had the most connections, to simulate the effect of vaccination. My results show …