Assessing the efficiency of different control strategies for the COVID-19 epidemic

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 th...

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Published in:Electronic journal of differential equations 2020-06, Vol.2020 (64), p.1-17
Main Authors: Cesar Castilho, Joao A. M. Gondim, Marcelo Marchesin, Mehran Sabeti
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
coronavirus
epidemic
quarantine
seir models
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1072-6691