Fig. 2.

Disease dynamics and population-wide contact reduction for a variety of delays and Hill response functions. Given a delay of τ days and a population-wide contact reduction function, parametrized by the behavioral response midpoint c and the sensitivity $k_h$, the A, C, E) disease prevalence and B, D, F) population-wide contact reduction is plotted over time for several A, B) τ-values, C, D) c-values and E,F) $k_h$-values. All nonspecified parameters are at their default values listed in Table 1. In all sub panels, the solid black line depicts the dynamics for $\tau =5,c=2\mathrm{\%},k_h=16$.