Flattening the curves: on-off lock-down strategies for COVID-19 with an application to Brazil

Flattening the curves: on-off lock-down strategies for COVID-19 with an application to Brazil

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Abstract The current COVID-19 pandemic is affecting different countries in different ways.The assortment of reporting techniques alongside other issues, such as underreporting and budgetary constraints, makes predicting the spread and lethality of the virus a challenging task.This work attempts to gain a better understanding of how COVID-19 will affect one of the least studied countries, namely Brazil.Currently, several Brazilian states are in a state of lock-down.However, there rubbermaid 8 gallon trash can is political pressure for this type of measures to be lifted.

This work considers the impact that such a termination would have on how the virus evolves locally.This was done by extending the SEIR model with an tillman 750m on / off strategy.Given the simplicity of SEIR we also attempted to gain more insight by developing a neural regressor.We chose to employ features that current clinical studies have pinpointed has having a connection to the lethality of COVID-19.We discuss how this data can be processed in order to obtain a robust assessment.