Fig. 2

Dynamics of the S and Q populations from the ODE model and ABM on networks (FC, BA, ER, FHS, LFR and SW networks). We used the best-fit parameters from the coarse-grained parameter sweep of the FHS network (\(\beta _{Q,S \rightarrow S,S},\beta _{S,N \rightarrow Q,N},\delta _{N \rightarrow S},\delta _{S \rightarrow Q},\delta _{Q \rightarrow S}= 0.01334, 0.05623, 1e\)-05, 4e-05, 1e-05) for these simulations. The black dotted lines in both the plots represent the ODE model results for the respective population for the same parameters mentioned above. The ODE model and ABM on FC show similar temporal dynamics, while the dynamics change drastically when the network structure moves away from FC