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Authors used preexisted spatial metapopulation model<ref>Danon L, House T, Keeling M. The role of routine versus random movements on the spread of disease in Great Britain. Epidemics [Internet]. 2009; Available from:
 
Authors used preexisted spatial metapopulation model<ref>Danon L, House T, Keeling M. The role of routine versus random movements on the spread of disease in Great Britain. Epidemics [Internet]. 2009; Available from:
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http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1755436509000553</ref> to describe population movement between regions in England and Whales and standard SEIR model to describe Covid-19 spread in each particular region.
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http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1755436509000553</ref> to describe population movement between regions in England and Whales and standard SEIR model to describe Covid-19 spread in each particular region<ref>Danon L., Brooks-Pollock E., Bailey M., Keeling M. A spatial model of CoVID-19 transmission in England and Wales: early spread and peak timing // medRxiv preprint 2020. {{doi|https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.12.20022566}}</ref>.
  
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Model predicts<ref>Danon L., Brooks-Pollock E., Bailey M., Keeling M. A spatial model of CoVID-19 transmission in England and Wales: early spread and peak timing // medRxiv preprint 2020. {{doi|https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.12.20022566}}</ref> that a CoVID-19 outbreak will peak 126 to 147 days (~4 months) after the start of person-to-person transmission in England and Wales in the absence of controls, assuming
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Total of 8,570 regions (or wards) were introduced.
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Model parameters were randomly distributed according to experimental data acquired for Wuhan<ref>Li Q, Guan X, Wu P, Wang X, Zhou L, Tong Y, et al. Early Transmission Dynamics in Wuhan, China, of Novel  oronavirus–Infected Pneumonia. N Engl J Med. 2020</ref>:
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{| class="wikitable"
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!Parameter!!Distribution
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|- style="background-color: Lavender"
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|Incubation period
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|lognorm(meanlog=log(5.2),sdlog=0.35)
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|Reproduction number
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|gamma(scale=2.2/100,shape=100)
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|Infectious period
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|uniform(2, 3)
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|}
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Seasonal changes in epidemic spread are also investigated by using varying transmission rate.
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Model predicts that a CoVID-19 outbreak will peak 126 to 147 days (~4 months) after the start of person-to-person transmission in England and Wales in the absence of controls, assuming
 
biological parameters remain unchanged. Therefore, if person-to-person transmission persists from February, authors predict the epidemic peak would occur in June.
 
biological parameters remain unchanged. Therefore, if person-to-person transmission persists from February, authors predict the epidemic peak would occur in June.
  
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Model was implemented using C programming language and is available at [http://github.com/ldanon/MetaWards github].
  
 
==References==
 
==References==
 
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Revision as of 12:29, 17 April 2020

SEIR model scheme
Simulation results

Authors used preexisted spatial metapopulation model[1] to describe population movement between regions in England and Whales and standard SEIR model to describe Covid-19 spread in each particular region[2].

Total of 8,570 regions (or wards) were introduced.

Model parameters were randomly distributed according to experimental data acquired for Wuhan[3]:

Parameter Distribution
Incubation period lognorm(meanlog=log(5.2),sdlog=0.35)
Reproduction number gamma(scale=2.2/100,shape=100)
Infectious period uniform(2, 3)

Seasonal changes in epidemic spread are also investigated by using varying transmission rate.

Model predicts that a CoVID-19 outbreak will peak 126 to 147 days (~4 months) after the start of person-to-person transmission in England and Wales in the absence of controls, assuming biological parameters remain unchanged. Therefore, if person-to-person transmission persists from February, authors predict the epidemic peak would occur in June.

Model was implemented using C programming language and is available at github.

References

  1. ↑ Danon L, House T, Keeling M. The role of routine versus random movements on the spread of disease in Great Britain. Epidemics [Internet]. 2009; Available from: http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1755436509000553
  2. ↑ Danon L., Brooks-Pollock E., Bailey M., Keeling M. A spatial model of CoVID-19 transmission in England and Wales: early spread and peak timing // medRxiv preprint 2020. doi:https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.12.20022566
  3. ↑ Li Q, Guan X, Wu P, Wang X, Zhou L, Tong Y, et al. Early Transmission Dynamics in Wuhan, China, of Novel oronavirus–Infected Pneumonia. N Engl J Med. 2020
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