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Social heterogeneity and the COVID-19 lockdown in a multi-group SEIR model
Jean Dolbeault
Gabriel TURINICI
Acceso Abierto
Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas
https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.15.20103010
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.15.20103010v2
The goal of the lockdown is to mitigate and if possible prevent the spread of an epidemic. It consists in reducing social interactions. This is taken into account by the introduction of a factor of reduction of social interactions q, and by decreasing the transmission coefficient of the disease accordingly. Evaluating q is a difficult question and one can ask if it makes sense to compute an average coefficient q for a given population, in order to make predictions on the basic reproduction rate ℛ0, the dynamics of the epidemic or the fraction of the population that will have been infected by the end of the epidemic. On a very simple example, we show that the computation of ℛ0 in a heterogeneous population is not reduced to the computation of an average q but rather to the direct computation of an average coefficient ℛ0. Even more interesting is the fact that, in a range of data compatible with the Covid-19 outbreak, the size of the epidemic is deeply modified by social heterogeneity, as is the height of the epidemic peak, while the date at which it is reached mainly depends on the average ℛ0 coefficient. This paper illustrates more technical results that can be found in [4], with new numerical computations. It is intended to draw the attention on the role of heterogeneities in a population in a very simple case, which might be difficult to apprehend in more realistic but also more complex models.
bioRxiv
11-01-2021
Preimpreso
Inglés
Público en general
VIRUS RESPIRATORIOS
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