TY - JOUR
T1 - Comparison of pandemic intervention policies in several building types using heterogeneous population model
AU - Lazebnik, Teddy
AU - Alexi, Ariel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2022/4
Y1 - 2022/4
N2 - In a world where pandemics are a matter of time and increasing urbanization of the world's population, governments should be prepared with pandemic intervention policies (IPs) to minimize the crisis's direct and indirect adverse effects while keeping normal life as much as possible. Successful pandemic IPs have to take into consideration the heterogeneous behavior of individuals in different types of buildings and social contexts. In this study, we propose a spatio-temporal, heterogeneous population model and in silico simulation to evaluate pandemic IPs in four types of buildings — home, office, school, and mall. We show that indeed each building type has a unique pandemic spread and therefore a different optimal IP. Moreover, we show that temporal-based IPs (such as mask-wearing) have a similar influence on the pandemic spread in all four building types while spatial-based IPs (such as social distance) highly differ.
AB - In a world where pandemics are a matter of time and increasing urbanization of the world's population, governments should be prepared with pandemic intervention policies (IPs) to minimize the crisis's direct and indirect adverse effects while keeping normal life as much as possible. Successful pandemic IPs have to take into consideration the heterogeneous behavior of individuals in different types of buildings and social contexts. In this study, we propose a spatio-temporal, heterogeneous population model and in silico simulation to evaluate pandemic IPs in four types of buildings — home, office, school, and mall. We show that indeed each building type has a unique pandemic spread and therefore a different optimal IP. Moreover, we show that temporal-based IPs (such as mask-wearing) have a similar influence on the pandemic spread in all four building types while spatial-based IPs (such as social distance) highly differ.
KW - Agent-based simulation
KW - Indoor pandemic
KW - Socio-epidemiological model
KW - Stochastic spatio-temporal SIR model
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cnsns.2021.106176
DO - 10.1016/j.cnsns.2021.106176
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AN - SCOPUS:85122529724
SN - 1007-5704
VL - 107
JO - Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation
JF - Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation
M1 - 106176
ER -