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Two-Age-Structured COVID-19 Epidemic Model: Estimation of Virulence Parameters to Interpret Effects of National and Regional Feedback Interventions and Vaccination.
- Source :
- Mathematics (2227-7390); Oct2021, Vol. 9 Issue 19, p2414, 1p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- The COVID-19 epidemic has recently led in Italy to the implementation of different external strategies in order to limit the spread of the disease in response to its transmission rate: strict national lockdown rules, followed first by a weakening of the social distancing and contact reduction feedback interventions and finally the implementation of coordinated intermittent regional actions, up to the application, in this last context, of an age-stratified vaccine prioritization strategy. This paper originally aims at identifying, starting from the available age-structured real data at the national level during the specific aforementioned scenarios, external-scenario-dependent sets of virulence parameters for a two-age-structured COVID-19 epidemic compartmental model, in order to provide an interpretation of how each external scenario modifies the age-dependent patterns of social contacts and the spread of COVID-19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 22277390
- Volume :
- 9
- Issue :
- 19
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Mathematics (2227-7390)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 153040813
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/math9192414