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Modelling the downhill of the Sars-Cov-2 in Italy and a universal forecast of the epidemic in the world

In a previous article [1] we have described the temporal evolution of the Sars-Cov-2 in Italy in the time window February 24-April 1. As we can see in [1] a generalized logistic equation captures both the peaks of the total infected and the deaths. In this article our goal is to study the missing pe...

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Autores principales: Martelloni, Gabriele, Martelloni, Gianluca
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7328650/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32834614
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2020.110064
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description In a previous article [1] we have described the temporal evolution of the Sars-Cov-2 in Italy in the time window February 24-April 1. As we can see in [1] a generalized logistic equation captures both the peaks of the total infected and the deaths. In this article our goal is to study the missing peak, i.e. the currently infected one (or total currently positive). After the April 7, the large increase in the number of swabs meant that the logistical behavior of the infected curve no longer worked. So we decided to generalize the model, introducing new parameters. Moreover, we adopt a similar approach used in [1] (for the estimation of deaths) in order to evaluate the recoveries. In this way, introducing a simple conservation law, we define a model with 4 populations: total infected, currently positives, recoveries and deaths. Therefore, we propose an alternative method to a classical SIRD model for the evaluation of the Sars-Cov-2 epidemic. However, the method is general and thus applicable to other diseases. Finally we study the behavior of the ratio infected over swabs for Italy, Germany and USA, and we show as studying this parameter we recover the generalized Logistic model used in [1] for these three countries. We think that this trend could be useful for a future epidemic of this coronavirus.
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spelling pubmed-73286502020-07-01 Modelling the downhill of the Sars-Cov-2 in Italy and a universal forecast of the epidemic in the world Martelloni, Gabriele Martelloni, Gianluca Chaos Solitons Fractals Frontiers In a previous article [1] we have described the temporal evolution of the Sars-Cov-2 in Italy in the time window February 24-April 1. As we can see in [1] a generalized logistic equation captures both the peaks of the total infected and the deaths. In this article our goal is to study the missing peak, i.e. the currently infected one (or total currently positive). After the April 7, the large increase in the number of swabs meant that the logistical behavior of the infected curve no longer worked. So we decided to generalize the model, introducing new parameters. Moreover, we adopt a similar approach used in [1] (for the estimation of deaths) in order to evaluate the recoveries. In this way, introducing a simple conservation law, we define a model with 4 populations: total infected, currently positives, recoveries and deaths. Therefore, we propose an alternative method to a classical SIRD model for the evaluation of the Sars-Cov-2 epidemic. However, the method is general and thus applicable to other diseases. Finally we study the behavior of the ratio infected over swabs for Italy, Germany and USA, and we show as studying this parameter we recover the generalized Logistic model used in [1] for these three countries. We think that this trend could be useful for a future epidemic of this coronavirus. Elsevier Ltd. 2020-10 2020-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7328650/ /pubmed/32834614 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2020.110064 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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title_full Modelling the downhill of the Sars-Cov-2 in Italy and a universal forecast of the epidemic in the world
title_fullStr Modelling the downhill of the Sars-Cov-2 in Italy and a universal forecast of the epidemic in the world
title_full_unstemmed Modelling the downhill of the Sars-Cov-2 in Italy and a universal forecast of the epidemic in the world
title_short Modelling the downhill of the Sars-Cov-2 in Italy and a universal forecast of the epidemic in the world
title_sort modelling the downhill of the sars-cov-2 in italy and a universal forecast of the epidemic in the world
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7328650/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32834614
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2020.110064
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