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ArticleMathematical biosciences2021

Lockdown measures and their impact on single- and two-age-structured epidemic model for the COVID-19 outbreak in Mexico.

J Cuevas-Maraver, P G Kevrekidis, Q Y Chen, G A Kevrekidis, Víctor Villalobos-Daniel, Z Rapti, Y Drossinos

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Article in Mathematical biosciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

J Cuevas-MaraverGrupo de Física No Lineal, Departamento de Física Aplicada I, Universidad de Sevilla. Escuela Politécnica Superior, C/ Virgen de África, 7, 41011 Sevilla, Spain; Instituto de Matemáticas de la Universidad de Sevilla (IMUS). Edificio Celestino Mutis, Avda. Reina Mercedes s/n, 41012 Sevilla, Spain.
P G KevrekidisDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-4515, USA.
Q Y ChenDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-4515, USA.
G A KevrekidisDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-4515, USA.
Víctor Villalobos-DanielNational Center of Disease Prevention and Control Programs - CENAPRECE, Avenida Benjamín Franklin, 132, 11800-Ciudad de Mexico, CDMX, Mexico.
Z RaptiDepartment of Mathematics and Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Electronic address: zrapti@illinois.edu.
Y DrossinosEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre, I-21027 Ispra (VA), Italy.
University of Massachusetts Amherst · USJoint Research Centre · ITUniversidad de Sevilla · ESUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · US

Funding

US National Science Foundation DMS-1809074US National Science Foundation DMS-1815764US National Science Foundation PHY-1602994
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The role of lockdown measures in mitigating COVID-19 in Mexico is investigated using a comprehensive nonlinear ODE model. The model includes both asymptomatic and presymptomatic populations with the latter leading to sickness (with recovery, hospitalization and death as possible outcomes). We consider situations involving the application of social-distancing and other intervention measures in the time series of interest. We find optimal parametric fits to the time series of deaths (only), as well as to the time series of deaths and cumulative infections. We discuss the merits and disadvantages of each approach, we interpret the parameters of the model and assess the realistic nature of the parameters resulting from the optimization procedure. Importantly, we explore a model involving two sub-populations (younger and older than a specific age), to more accurately reflect the observed impact as concerns symptoms and behavior in different age groups. For definiteness and to separate people that are (typically) in the active workforce, our partition of population is with respect to members younger vs. older than the age of 65. The basic reproduction number of the model is computed for both the single- and the two-population variant. Finally, we consider what would be the impact of partial lockdown (involving only the older population) and full lockdown (involving the entire population) on the number of deaths and cumulative infections.

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AdultAgedAged, 80 and overCOVID-19Disease OutbreaksHumansMexicoMiddle AgedModels, Statistical

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