Beyond just “flattening the curve”: Optimal control of epidemics with purely non-pharmaceutical interventions

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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Main Authors: Markus Kantner, Thomas Koprucki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2020-08-01
Series:Journal of Mathematics in Industry
Subjects:
Mathematical epidemiology
Optimal control
Non-pharmaceutical interventions
Reproduction number
Dynamical systems
COVID-19
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13362-020-00091-3

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