Multiplex Epidemic — Awareness Coupling

Disease on contact layer + awareness on info layer — epidemic threshold shifts

Infected:  |  Aware:  |  R₀_eff =
Two-layer multiplex: disease (SIS) spreads on the contact network, awareness (UA) spreads on the information network. Aware nodes have reduced infection probability (1−δ)β. Above threshold, epidemic survives; awareness raises the epidemic threshold. Blue = susceptible, red = infected, yellow = aware+susceptible, orange = aware+infected.