Coronavirus Disease 2019 on the Heels of Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa.

ABSTRACT: This study utilized modeling and simulation to examine the effectiveness of current and potential future COVID-19 response interventions in the West African countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. A comparison between simulations can highlight which interventions could have an effect on the pandemic in these countries. An extended compartmental model was used to run simulations incorporating multiple vaccination strategies and non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). In addition to the customary categories of susceptible, exposed, infected, and recovered (SEIR) compartments, this COVID-19 model incorporated early and late disease states, isolation, treatment, and death. Lessons learned from the 2014-2016 Ebola virus disease outbreak-especially the optimization of each country's res

SUBMITTER: Dembek ZF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8537256 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature