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ArticleInternational journal of dynamics and control2023

Controlling epidemic extinction using early warning signals.

Walter Ullon, Eric Forgoston

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Article in International journal of dynamics and control, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Walter UllonDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Montclair State University, 1 Normal Avenue, Montclair, NJ 07043 USA.
Eric ForgostonDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Montclair State University, 1 Normal Avenue, Montclair, NJ 07043 USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0694-9981

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Abstract

As the recent COVID-19 pandemic has shown us, there is a critical need to develop new approaches to monitoring the outbreak and spread of infectious disease. Improvements in monitoring will enable a timely implementation of control measures, including vaccine and quarantine, to stem the spread of disease. One such approach involves the use of early warning signals to detect when critical transitions are about to occur. Although the early detection of a stochastic transition is difficult to predict using the generic indicators of early warning signals theory, the changes detected by the indicators do tell us that some type of transition is taking place. This observation will serve as the foundation of the method described in the article. We consider a susceptible-infectious-susceptible epidemic model with reproduction number

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ControlEarly warning signalsEpidemic extinctionStochastic epidemic model

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PMID35910509
PMCPMC9307972

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