Ranking the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions to counter COVID-19 in UK universities with vaccinated population.

ABSTRACT: Several universities around the world have resumed in-person teaching after successful vaccination campaigns have covered 70/80% of the population. In this study, we combine a new compartmental model with an optimal control formulation to discover, among different non-pharmaceutical interventions, the best prevention strategy to maximize on-campus activities while keeping spread under control. Composed of two interconnected Susceptible-Exposed-Infected-Quarantined-Recovered (SEIQR) structures, the model enables staff-to-staff infections, student-to-staff cross infections, student-to-student infections, and environment-to-individual infections. Then, we model input variables representing the implementation of different non-pharmaceutical interventions and formulate and solve optimal control

SUBMITTER: Niu Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9336164 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature