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Scheduling fixed length quarantines to minimize the total number of fatalities during an epidemic

We consider a susceptible, infected, removed (SIR) system where the transmission rate may be temporarily reduced for a fixed amount of time. We show that in order to minimize the total number of fatalities, the transmission rate should be reduced on a single contiguous time interval, and we characte...

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Autores principales: Feng, Yuanyuan, Iyer, Gautam, Li, Lei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8185504/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34101040
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00285-021-01615-0