Networks of necessity: Simulating COVID-19 mitigation strategies for disabled people and their caregivers.

ABSTRACT: A major strategy to prevent the spread of COVID-19 is the limiting of in-person contacts. However, limiting contacts is impractical or impossible for the many disabled people who do not live in care facilities but still require caregivers to assist them with activities of daily living. We seek to determine which interventions can best prevent infections of disabled people and their caregivers. To accomplish this, we simulate COVID-19 transmission with a compartmental model that includes susceptible, exposed, asymptomatic, symptomatically ill, hospitalized, and removed/recovered individuals. The networks on which we simulate disease spread incorporate heterogeneity in the risk levels of different types of interactions, time-dependent lockdown and reopening measures, and interaction distribu

SUBMITTER: Valles TE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9232173 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature