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MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN SIMULATION
卷 198, 期 -, 页码 47-64出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.matcom.2022.02.023
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Bernoulli; COVID-19; Epidemic; Inflection point; Reproduction number
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- Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF)
This paper aims to study the epidemic state during the COVID-19 pandemic, proposing a continuous estimation of the maximum reproduction number and comparing it with the basic reproduction number. The transmission rate is estimated using the Bernoulli S-I equation by identifying the inflection point of daily new infectious cases. Real data from Cameroon and global outbreak are analyzed, showing significant correlations between socio-economic parameters and epidemiology parameters.
The dynamics of COVID-19 pandemic varies across countries and it is important for researchers to study different kind of phenomena observed at different stages of the waves during the epidemic period. Our interest in this paper is not to model what happened during the endemic state but during the epidemic state. We proposed a continuous formulation of a unique maximum reproduction number estimate with an assumption that the epidemic curve is in form of the Gaussian curve and then compare the model with the discrete form and the observed basic reproduction number during the contagiousness period considered. Furthermore, we estimated the transmission rate from identification of the first inflection point of a wave of the curve of daily new infectious cases using the Bernoulli S-I (Susceptible-Infected) equation. We applied this new method to the real data from Cameroon COVID-19 outbreak both at national and regional levels. High correlation was observed between the socio-economic parameters and epidemiology parameters at regional level in Cameroon. Also, the method was applied to the second wave COVID-19 outbreak for the world data which is a period the phenomena we are considering were observed. Lastly, it was observed that the models presented results correspond with the epidemic dynamics in Cameroon and World data. We recommend that it is important to study what happened during the growth inflection point as some countries data did not climax.(c) 2022 International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (IMACS). Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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