Chasing up and locking down the virus: Optimal pandemic interventions within a network.

ABSTRACT: During the COVID-19 pandemic countries invested significant amounts of resources into its containment. In early stages of the pandemic most of the (nonpharmaceutical) interventions can be classified into two groups: (i) testing and identification of infected individuals, (ii) social distancing measures to reduce the transmission probabilities. Furthermore, both groups of measures may, in principle, be targeted at certain subgroups of a networked population. To study such a problem, we propose an extension of the SIR model with additional compartments for quarantine and different courses of the disease across several network nodes. We develop the structure of the optimal allocation and study a numerical example of three symmetric regions that are subject to an asymmetric progression of the

SUBMITTER: Freiberger M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9350112 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature