Modeling strict age-targeted mitigation strategies for COVID-19
Populations and Evolution
2020-09-09 v1
Abstract
We use a simple SIR-like epidemic model which integrates known age-contact patterns for the United States to model the effect of age-targeted mitigation strategies for a COVID-19-like epidemic. We find that, among strategies which end with population immunity, strict age-targeted mitigation strategies have the potential to greatly reduce mortalities and ICU utilization for natural parameter choices.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2004.04144,
title = {Modeling strict age-targeted mitigation strategies for COVID-19},
author = {Maria Chikina and Wesley Pegden},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.04144},
year = {2020}
}
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16 pages, 16 figures, 1 table