Fig 3. Reopening with an increased infection contact rate will lead to high total infection burden and rapid transmission of the Gamma variant in the US.
A: Total infection burden for all variants over different contact rates corresponding to different RT values for WT SARS-CoV-2. B: Length of time from the start of the simulation until 5 million individuals have been infected with the Gamma variant, given different contact rates corresponding to different RT values for WT SARS-CoV-2. Vertical dashed lines in both panels correspond to R0 values measured at the beginning of the pandemic (3.32 and 5.7), before infection control policies were implemented.