Effect of two vaccine doses in the SEIR epidemic model using a stochastic cellular automaton
Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases
2022-09-14 v1 Chaotic Dynamics
Biological Physics
Populations and Evolution
Abstract
In this work, to support decision making of immunisation strategies, we propose the inclusion of two vaccination doses in the SEIR model considering a stochastic cellular automaton. We analyse three different scenarios of vaccination: i)unlimiteddoses,(ii)limiteddosesintosusceptibleindividuals,and(iii)limiteddosesrandomlydistributedoverallindividuals.Ourresultssuggestthatthenumberofvaccinationsandtimetostartthevaccinationismorerelevantthanthevaccineefficacy,delaybetweenthefirstandseconddoses,anddelaybetweenvaccinatedgroups.Thescenario(i)showsthatthesolutioncanconvergeearlytoadisease−freeequilibriumforafractionofindividualsvaccinatedwiththefirstdose.Inthescenario(ii),fewtwovaccinationdosesdividedintoasmallnumberofapplicationsreducethenumberofinfectedpeoplemorethanintomanyapplications.Inaddition,thereisalowwasteofdosesforthefirstapplicationandanincreaseofthewasteintheseconddose.Thescenario(iii)presentsanincreaseinthewasteofdosesfromthefirsttosecondapplicationsmorethanthescenario(ii)$. In the scenario (iii), the total of wasted doses increases linearly with the number of applications. Furthermore, the number of effective doses in the application of consecutive groups decays exponentially overtime.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2209.01022,
title = {Effect of two vaccine doses in the SEIR epidemic model using a stochastic cellular automaton},
author = {Enrique C. Gabrick and Paulo R. Protachevicz and Antonio M. Batista and Kelly C. Iarosz and Silvio L. T. de Souza and Alexandre C. L. Almeida and José D. Szezech and Michele Mugnaine and Iberê L. Caldas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.01022},
year = {2022}
}