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ArticleNonlinear dynamics2021

A stochastic SEIHR model for COVID-19 data fluctuations.

Ruiwu Niu, Yin-Chi Chan, Eric W M Wong, Michaël Antonie van Wyk, Guanrong Chen

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Article in Nonlinear dynamics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Ruiwu NiuCollege of Mathematics and Statistics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060 People's Republic of China.
Yin-Chi ChanDepartment of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Ave., Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong.
Eric W M WongDepartment of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Ave., Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong.ORCID 0000-0002-1641-6903
Michaël Antonie van WykSchool of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2000 South Africa.
Guanrong ChenDepartment of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Ave., Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong.

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Abstract

Although deterministic compartmental models are useful for predicting the general trend of a disease's spread, they are unable to describe the random daily fluctuations in the number of new infections and hospitalizations, which is crucial in determining the necessary healthcare capacity for a specified level of risk. In this paper, we propose a stochastic SEIHR (sSEIHR) model to describe such random fluctuations and provide sufficient conditions for stochastic stability of the disease-free equilibrium, based on the basic reproduction number that we estimated. Our extensive numerical results demonstrate strong threshold behavior near the estimated basic reproduction number, suggesting that the necessary conditions for stochastic stability are close to the sufficient conditions derived. Furthermore, we found that increasing the noise level slightly reduces the final proportion of infected individuals. In addition, we analyze COVID-19 data from various regions worldwide and demonstrate that by changing only a few parameter values, our sSEIHR model can accurately describe both the general trend and the random fluctuations in the number of daily new cases in each region, allowing governments and hospitals to make more accurate caseload predictions using fewer compartments and parameters than other comparable stochastic compartmental models.

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COVID-19Data fluctuationSEIHR modelStochastic differential equationStochastic stability

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