Optimal control prevents itself from eradicating stochastic disease epidemics

• Rachel Russell ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rjt42@cam.ac.uk

  Affiliation Theoretical and Computational Epidemiology, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0009-0005-9245-2665

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• Nik J Cunniffe

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Theoretical and Computational Epidemiology, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3533-8672

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