ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021
A simple model for control of COVID-19 infections on an urban campus.
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- TransCode: Uncovering COVID-19 transmission patterns via deep learning.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2023Article
- The impact of multiple non-pharmaceutical interventions for China-bound travel on domestic COVID-19 outbreaks.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- General infection prevention, mitigation, and control procedures implemented in the university education during the COVID-19 pandemic to achieve classroom attendance: a successful community case study.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
A customized susceptible, exposed, infected, and recovered compartmental model is presented for describing the control of asymptomatic spread of COVID-19 infections on a residential, urban college campus embedded in a large urban community by using public health protocols, founded on surveillance testing, contact tracing, isolation, and quarantine. Analysis in the limit of low infection rates-a necessary condition for successful operation of the campus-yields expressions for controlling the infection and understanding the dynamics of infection spread. The number of expected cases on campus is proportional to the exogenous infection rate in the community and is decreased by more frequent testing and effective contact tracing. Simple expressions are presented for the dynamics of superspreader events and the impact of partial vaccination. The model results compare well with residential data from Boston University's undergraduate population for fall 2020.
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