Modelling pre-symptomatic infectiousness in Covid-19
Modelling pre-symptomatic infectiousness in Covid-19
This paper considers SEPIR, an extension of the well-known SEIR continuous simulation compartment model. Both models can be fitted to real data as they include parameters that can be estimated from the data. SEPIR deploys an additional pre-symptomatic (also called asymptomatic) infectious stage not in SEIR but known to exist in COVID-19. This stage can also be fitted to data. We focus on how to fit SEPIR to a first wave. Both SEPIR and the existing SEIR model assume a homogeneous mixing population with parameters fixed. Moreover neither includes dynamically varying control strategies deployed against the virus. If either model is to represent more than just a single wave of the epidemic, then the parameters of the model would have to be time dependent. In view of this we also consider how reproduction numbers can be calculated to investigate the longer term overall result of an epidemic.
Asymptomatic transmission, Differential equation epidemic models, Effective reproduction number, Parametric models
221-230
Operational Research Society
Cheng, Russell
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Dagpunar, John
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Dye, Christopher
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Williams, Brian
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22 March 2021
Cheng, Russell
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Dagpunar, John
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Dye, Christopher
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Williams, Brian
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Cheng, Russell, Dagpunar, John, Dye, Christopher and Williams, Brian
(2021)
Modelling pre-symptomatic infectiousness in Covid-19.
Fakhimi, Masoud, Boness, Tom and Robertson, Duncan
(eds.)
In Operational Research Society 10th Simulation Workshop, SW 2021 - Proceedings.
Operational Research Society.
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(doi:10.36819/SW21.024).
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This paper considers SEPIR, an extension of the well-known SEIR continuous simulation compartment model. Both models can be fitted to real data as they include parameters that can be estimated from the data. SEPIR deploys an additional pre-symptomatic (also called asymptomatic) infectious stage not in SEIR but known to exist in COVID-19. This stage can also be fitted to data. We focus on how to fit SEPIR to a first wave. Both SEPIR and the existing SEIR model assume a homogeneous mixing population with parameters fixed. Moreover neither includes dynamically varying control strategies deployed against the virus. If either model is to represent more than just a single wave of the epidemic, then the parameters of the model would have to be time dependent. In view of this we also consider how reproduction numbers can be calculated to investigate the longer term overall result of an epidemic.
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Published date: 22 March 2021
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10th Operational Research Society Simulation Workshop, SW 2021, , Virtual, Online, 2021-03-22 - 2021-03-26
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Asymptomatic transmission, Differential equation epidemic models, Effective reproduction number, Parametric models
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Christopher Dye
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Brian Williams
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Masoud Fakhimi
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Tom Boness
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Duncan Robertson
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