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ArticleScientific reports2023

A comparative study of compartmental models for COVID-19 transmission in Ontario, Canada.

Yuxuan Zhao, Samuel W K Wong

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Article in Scientific reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Yuxuan ZhaoDepartment of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, N2L 3G1, Canada.
Samuel W K WongDepartment of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, N2L 3G1, Canada. samuel.wong@uwaterloo.ca.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases reached over 1.3 million in Ontario, Canada by June 4, 2022. The continued spread of the virus underlying COVID-19 has been spurred by the emergence of variants since the initial outbreak in December, 2019. Much attention has thus been devoted to tracking and modelling the transmission of COVID-19. Compartmental models are commonly used to mimic epidemic transmission mechanisms and are easy to understand. Their performance in real-world settings, however, needs to be more thoroughly assessed. In this comparative study, we examine five compartmental models-four existing ones and an extended model that we propose-and analyze their ability to describe COVID-19 transmission in Ontario from January 2022 to June 2022.

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COVID-19EpidemicsDisease OutbreaksEpidemiological ModelsHumansOntario

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PMID37700081
PMCPMC10497623

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