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ArticleComputational mechanics2020

Memory-based meso-scale modeling of Covid-19: County-resolved timelines in Germany.

Andreas Kergaßner, Christian Burkhardt, Dorothee Lippold, Matthias Kergaßner, Lukas Pflug, Dominik Budday, Paul Steinmann, Silvia Budday

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Article in Computational mechanics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Data-driven modeling of COVID-19-Lessons learned.Extreme Mechanics Letters · 2020
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  8. Is it safe to lift COVID-19 travel bans? The Newfoundland story.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors.

Andreas KergaßnerDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Applied Mechanics, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen Nürnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany.
Christian BurkhardtDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Applied Mechanics, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen Nürnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany.
Dorothee LippoldDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Applied Mechanics, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen Nürnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany.
Matthias KergaßnerDepartment of Computer Science, Hardware-Software-Co-Design, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany.
Lukas PflugDepartment of Mathematics, Chair of Applied Mathematics (Continuous Optimization), Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany.
Dominik BuddayDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Applied Mechanics, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen Nürnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany.
Paul SteinmannDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Applied Mechanics, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen Nürnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany.
Silvia BuddayDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Applied Mechanics, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen Nürnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented world-wide effort to gather data, model, and understand the viral spread. Entire societies and economies are desperate to recover and get back to normality. However, to this end accurate models are of essence that capture both the viral spread and the courses of disease in space and time at reasonable resolution. Here, we combine a spatially resolved county-level infection model for Germany with a memory-based integro-differential approach capable of directly including medical data on the course of disease, which is not possible when using traditional SIR-type models. We calibrate our model with data on cumulative detected infections and deaths from the Robert-Koch Institute and demonstrate how the model can be used to obtain county- or even city-level estimates on the number of new infections, hospitality rates and demands on intensive care units. We believe that the present work may help guide decision makers to locally fine-tune their expedient response to potential new outbreaks in the near future.

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COVID-19SIR and integro-differential modelsSpatio-temporal meso-scale outbreak dynamics

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PMID32836600
PMCPMC7398641

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