Design of control strategies to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: This paper proposes control strategies to allocate COVID-19 patients to screening facilities, health facilities, and quarantine facilities for minimizing the spread of the virus by these patients. To calculate the transmission rate, we propose a function that accounts for contact rate, duration of the contact, age structure of the population, susceptibility to infection, and the number of transmission events per contact. Moreover, the COVID-19 cases are divided into different groups according to the severity of their disease and are allocated to appropriate health facilities that provide care tailored to their needs. The multi-stage fuzzy stochastic programming approach is applied to cope with uncertainty, in which the probability associated with nodes of the scenario tree is treated as fu

SUBMITTER: Hosseini-Motlagh SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8592648 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature