Open AccessA Heterogeneous Branching Process with Immigration Modeling for COVID‐19 Spreading in Local Communities in China
Author(s) -
Lin Zhang,
Wang Haochen,
Liu Zhong-yang,
Xiao Fan Liu,
Xin Feng,
Ye Wu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
complexity
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.447
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1099-0526
pISSN - 1076-2787
DOI - 10.1155/2021/6686547
Subject(s) - covid-19 , china , pandemic , branching process , immigration , branching (polymer chemistry) , transmission (telecommunications) , social distance , process (computing) , quarantine , geography , economic geography , econometrics , computer science , statistical physics , biology , economics , infectious disease (medical specialty) , ecology , telecommunications , medicine , physics , materials science , disease , archaeology , pathology , composite material , operating system
The COVID-19 pandemic spread catastrophically over the world since the spring of 2020. In this paper, a heterogeneous branching process with immigration is established to quantify the human-to-human transmission of COVID-19 in local communities, based on the temporal and structural transmission patterns extracted from public case disclosures by four provincial Health Commissions in China. With proper parameter settings, our branching model matches the actual transmission chains satisfactorily and, therefore, sheds light on the underlying COVID-19 spreading mechanism. Moreover, based on our branching model, the efficacy of home quarantine and social distancing are explored, providing a reference for the effective prevention of COVID-19 worldwide. © 2021 Lin Zhang et al.
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