Optimal control to limit the spread of COVID-19 in Italy. (Special issue on COVID.)
Kuwait Journal of Science
; (on)2021.
Article
in English
| GIM | ID: covidwho-2320770
ABSTRACT
We apply optimal control theory to a generalized SEIR-type model. The proposed system has three controls, representing social distancing, preventive means, and treatment measures to combat the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyze such optimal control problem with respect to real data transmission in Italy. Our results show the appropriateness of the model, in particular with respect to the number of quarantined/hospitalized (confirmed and infected) and recovered individuals. Considering the Pontryagin controls, we show how in a perfect world one could drastically diminish the number of susceptible, exposed, infected, quarantined/hospitalized, and death individuals, by increasing the population of insusceptible/protected.
human diseases; disease prevention; epidemiology; pandemics; risk factors; social distancing; symptoms; world; coronavirus disease 2019; viral diseases; man; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Italy; European Union Countries; high income countries; Mediterranean Region; OECD Countries; Southern Europe; Europe; very high Human Development Index countries; Homo; Hominidae; primates; mammals; vertebrates; Chordata; animals; eukaryotes; Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus; Betacoronavirus; Coronavirinae; Coronaviridae; Nidovirales; positive-sense ssRNA Viruses; ssRNA Viruses; RNA Viruses; viruses; SARS-CoV-2; worldwide; viral infections
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Kuwait Journal of Science
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2021
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