Using Unstated Cases to Correct for COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak and Its Impact on Easing the Intervention for Qatar

<div><p>Epidemiological Modeling supports the evaluation of various disease management activities. The value of epidemiological models lies in their ability to study various scenarios and to provide governments with a priori knowledge of the consequence of disease incursions and the impa...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Narjiss Sallahi (18513240) (author)
مؤلفون آخرون: Heesoo Park (1604989) (author), Fedwa El Mellouhi (18513243) (author), Mustapha Rachdi (8554113) (author), Idir Ouassou (18513246) (author), Samir Belhaouari (18418839) (author), Abdelilah Arredouani (10914455) (author), Halima Bensmail (10400) (author)
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Mustapha Rachdi (8554113)
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Samir Belhaouari (18418839)
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Halima Bensmail (10400)
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Heesoo Park (1604989)
Fedwa El Mellouhi (18513243)
Mustapha Rachdi (8554113)
Idir Ouassou (18513246)
Samir Belhaouari (18418839)
Abdelilah Arredouani (10914455)
Halima Bensmail (10400)
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Epidemiology
Public health
coronavirus
COVID-19
reproduction number
transmission rate
reported and unreported cases
interventions
SIR model
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description <div><p>Epidemiological Modeling supports the evaluation of various disease management activities. The value of epidemiological models lies in their ability to study various scenarios and to provide governments with a priori knowledge of the consequence of disease incursions and the impact of preventive strategies. A prevalent method of modeling the spread of pandemics is to categorize individuals in the population as belonging to one of several distinct compartments, which represents their health status with regard to the pandemic. In this work, a modified SIR epidemic model is proposed and analyzed with respect to the identification of its parameters and initial values based on stated or recorded case data from public health sources to estimate the unreported cases and the effectiveness of public health policies such as social distancing in slowing the spread of the epidemic. The analysis aims to highlight the importance of unreported cases for correcting the underestimated basic reproduction number. In many epidemic outbreaks, the number of reported infections is likely much lower than the actual number of infections which can be calculated from the model’s parameters derived from reported case data. The analysis is applied to the COVID-19 pandemic for several countries in the Gulf region and Europe.</p><p> </p></div><h2>Other Information</h2> <p> Published in: Biology<br> License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biology10060463" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biology10060463</a></p>
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spelling Using Unstated Cases to Correct for COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak and Its Impact on Easing the Intervention for QatarNarjiss Sallahi (18513240)Heesoo Park (1604989)Fedwa El Mellouhi (18513243)Mustapha Rachdi (8554113)Idir Ouassou (18513246)Samir Belhaouari (18418839)Abdelilah Arredouani (10914455)Halima Bensmail (10400)Health sciencesEpidemiologyPublic healthcoronavirusCOVID-19reproduction numbertransmission ratereported and unreported casesinterventionsSIR model<div><p>Epidemiological Modeling supports the evaluation of various disease management activities. The value of epidemiological models lies in their ability to study various scenarios and to provide governments with a priori knowledge of the consequence of disease incursions and the impact of preventive strategies. A prevalent method of modeling the spread of pandemics is to categorize individuals in the population as belonging to one of several distinct compartments, which represents their health status with regard to the pandemic. In this work, a modified SIR epidemic model is proposed and analyzed with respect to the identification of its parameters and initial values based on stated or recorded case data from public health sources to estimate the unreported cases and the effectiveness of public health policies such as social distancing in slowing the spread of the epidemic. The analysis aims to highlight the importance of unreported cases for correcting the underestimated basic reproduction number. In many epidemic outbreaks, the number of reported infections is likely much lower than the actual number of infections which can be calculated from the model’s parameters derived from reported case data. The analysis is applied to the COVID-19 pandemic for several countries in the Gulf region and Europe.</p><p> </p></div><h2>Other Information</h2> <p> Published in: Biology<br> License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biology10060463" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biology10060463</a></p>2021-05-24T03:00:00ZTextJournal contributioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontextcontribution to journal10.3390/biology10060463https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Using_Unstated_Cases_to_Correct_for_COVID-19_Pandemic_Outbreak_and_Its_Impact_on_Easing_the_Intervention_for_Qatar/25764336CC BY 4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:figshare.com:article/257643362021-05-24T03:00:00Z
spellingShingle Using Unstated Cases to Correct for COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak and Its Impact on Easing the Intervention for Qatar
Narjiss Sallahi (18513240)
Health sciences
Epidemiology
Public health
coronavirus
COVID-19
reproduction number
transmission rate
reported and unreported cases
interventions
SIR model
status_str publishedVersion
title Using Unstated Cases to Correct for COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak and Its Impact on Easing the Intervention for Qatar
title_full Using Unstated Cases to Correct for COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak and Its Impact on Easing the Intervention for Qatar
title_fullStr Using Unstated Cases to Correct for COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak and Its Impact on Easing the Intervention for Qatar
title_full_unstemmed Using Unstated Cases to Correct for COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak and Its Impact on Easing the Intervention for Qatar
title_short Using Unstated Cases to Correct for COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak and Its Impact on Easing the Intervention for Qatar
title_sort Using Unstated Cases to Correct for COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak and Its Impact on Easing the Intervention for Qatar
topic Health sciences
Epidemiology
Public health
coronavirus
COVID-19
reproduction number
transmission rate
reported and unreported cases
interventions
SIR model