Larger network structure
Finally, we characterize the role of global network structure through considering the impact of degree distribution on a few summary statistics of system-wide disease burden: the mean proportion of infectious individuals (area under the currently infectious (i.e. y) curve), the mean level of strain-specific immunity (average z value), and the mean time between epidemic peaks (i.e. between local maxima in y) over the course of the final 33% of the simulation. We omit the initial period of the simulation to reduce the impact of transient dynamics.