Decline in mitigation readiness facilitated second waves of<i>SARS-CoV-2</i>
Decline in mitigation readiness facilitated second waves of<i>SARS-CoV-2</i>
Societal responses crucially shape the course of a pandemics but are difficult to predict. Mitigation dynamics is introduced here as an integral part of an epidemiological model, which is applied to the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Unperturbed simulations accurately reproduce diverse epidemic and social response trajectories from 2020 to 2021 reported …