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Fig. 4

From: Social mobilization and polarization can create volatility in COVID-19 pandemic control

Fig. 4

Days to success of compliance campaigns (bar plot) under different levels of polarization: strong polarization (\(\alpha = 1\)), moderate polarization (\(\alpha = 0.5\)), and no polarization (\(\alpha = 0\)). We seed the campaign from a 50,000 Democratic population in New York City (i.e., Kings county, NY) on March 11, 2020. We used the median time series of 100 simulations to determine the date of success. The bars denote the days taken to mobilize 0.003% of the population of each state in a span of one year, and the colors denote the political makeup of each state. States are colored by grey if mobilization failed to reach the population threshold. The error bars show the days when the upper and lower limits of the interquartile range (Fig. 3) of the mobilization sizes reach the population threshold. The cross markers denote the date of actual lockdown in each US state. The table under the plot shows the success rate of the campaign and the number of mobilized states for Democratic, Republican and all states, respectively

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