Assessing the efficiency of different control strategies for the COVID-19 epidemic
Date
2020-06-24
Authors
Castilho, Cesar
Gondim, Joao
Marchesin, Marcelo
Sabeti, Mehran
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Publisher
Texas State University, Department of Mathematics
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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Keywords
Coronavirus, Quarantine, Epidemic, SEIR models
Citation
Castilho, C., Gondim, J. A. M., Marchesin, M., & Sabeti, M. (2020). Assessing the efficiency of different control strategies for the COVID-19 epidemic. <i>Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, 2020</i>(64), pp. 1-17.
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