Controlling the spread of COVID-19 on college campuses

Autor: Justin Pei, Hwai Ray Tung, Rick Durrett, Molly Borowiak, Sarah Zhao, Fayfay Ning
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
Physics - Physics and Society
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Universities
Student Health Services
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
lcsh:Biotechnology
Physical Distancing
critical value
Basic Reproduction Number
FOS: Physical sciences
sir epidemic
02 engineering and technology
Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
Disease Outbreaks
perron-frobenius theorem
Residence Characteristics
lcsh:TP248.13-248.65
0502 economics and business
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering

Mathematics education
FOS: Mathematics
Humans
household model
Quantitative Biology - Populations and Evolution
Students
Applied Mathematics
lcsh:Mathematics
05 social sciences
Probability (math.PR)
Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
COVID-19
General Medicine
Models
Theoretical

lcsh:QA1-939
Computational Mathematics
Geography
Modeling and Simulation
FOS: Biological sciences
020201 artificial intelligence & image processing
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Basic reproduction number
050203 business & management
Mathematics - Probability
Zdroj: Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, Vol 18, Iss 1, Pp 551-563 (2021)
ISSN: 1551-0018
Popis: This research was done during the DOMath program at Duke University from May 18 to July 10, 2020. At the time, Duke and other universities across the country were wrestling with the question of how to safely welcome students back to campus in the Fall. Because of this, our project focused on using mathematical models to evaluate strategies to suppress the spread of the virus on campus, specifically in dorms and in classrooms. For dorms, we show that giving students single rooms rather than double rooms can substantially reduce virus spread. For classrooms, we show that moving classes with size above some cutoff online can make the basic reproduction number $R_0
10 pages, 7 figures
Databáze: OpenAIRE