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SUBMITTER: Svoboda J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8795434 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Svoboda Jakub J Tkadlec Josef J Pavlogiannis Andreas A Chatterjee Krishnendu K Nowak Martin A MA
Scientific reports 20220127 1
Motivated by COVID-19, we develop and analyze a simple stochastic model for the spread of disease in human population. We track how the number of infected and critically ill people develops over time in order to estimate the demand that is imposed on the hospital system. To keep this demand under control, we consider a class of simple policies for slowing down and reopening society and we compare their efficiency in mitigating the spread of the virus from several different points of view. We fin ...[more]