Beyond just “flattening the curve”: Optimal control of epidemics with purely non-pharmaceutical interventions
Abstract When effective medical treatment and vaccination are not available, non-pharmaceutical interventions such as social distancing, home quarantine and far-reaching shutdown of public life are the only available strategies to prevent the spread of epidemics. Based on an extended SEIR (susceptib...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2020-08-01
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Series: | Journal of Mathematics in Industry |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13362-020-00091-3 |