Assessing the efficiency of different control strategies for the COVID-19 epidemic
César Castilho, João A. M. Gondim, Marcelo Marchesin, Mehran Sabeti
Abstract
The goal of this work is to analyze the effects of control policies for the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic in Brazil. This is done by considering an age-structured SEIR model with a quarantine class and two types of controls. The first one studies the sensitivity with regard to the parameters of the basic reproductive number R0 which is calculated by a next generation method. The second one evaluates different quarantine strategies by comparing their relative total number of deaths.
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Topics & Concepts
QuarantineCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Basic reproduction numberMathematics2019-20 coronavirus outbreakSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Control (management)Class (philosophy)StatisticsEconometricsDemographyComputer scienceVirologyMedicineArtificial intelligenceSociologyPopulationInfectious disease (medical specialty)OutbreakPathologyDiseaseCOVID-19 epidemiological studiesCOVID-19 Pandemic ImpactsIncome, Poverty, and Inequality