Figure 2.

Control strategies and their VM ratios. We compute the VM ratios of the event reproduction number, R, distributions resulting from uniform, super-spreading and sub-spreading control measures for various dispersion parameters k with lower and upper truncations points of a = 1/10 and b = 10, respectively. Before control $\mathbb{E}[R]=\mu =3$ and after control $\mathbb{E}[R]=\rho \mu$ with smaller ρ indicating increased average control effort. We find that when ρμ is large limiting super-spreading is most effective in reducing VM[R]. However, as ρμ decreases interventions targeting sub-spreading become the most effective at minimizing variability.