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An empirical model for the spread and reduction of the CoVid19 pandemic
Author(s) -
Joaquim Clara-Rahola
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
estudios de economía aplicada
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 1697-5731
pISSN - 1133-3197
DOI - 10.25115/eea.v38i2.3323
Subject(s) - outbreak , covid-19 , growth curve (statistics) , pandemic , statistics , econometrics , demography , mathematics , medicine , virology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , sociology
This document depicts an empirical approach to the dynamics of diagnosed CoVid19 infections at outbreak scenarios. Here we study empirical daily diagnosed infections and by performing an initial study based on basic models of infection spreads, we find two distinct exponential regimes in which the CoVid19 displays an infection growth rate. Here, measures such as household lockdown are critical in order to lower the infection rate. As a result, a crossover point between fast and slow infection rates is found one week after lockdown, which is turn is the average CoVid19’s incubation period. After this crossover point, and following the slow growth rate, infections reach a maximum after which the infection rate starts to decrease. A possible peak can be found latter to this lockdown critical point, due to a number of households being infected by subjects already sick from the spread periods. However, such peak is a singularity as due to lockdown the diagnosed infections keep decreasing exponentially. Note that this profile, which we have denoted as Whuan Quality-Curve (Or Whuan Q-Curve) is characteristic to the evolution of CoVid19 in china as infected countries such as Spain or Italy still are at early stages of the Whuan Q-Curve. However, both countries display such profile up to date. Furthermore, our analysis and the proposal of the Q-Curve as a master curve to consider in each CoVid19 outbreak, allows a prediction of outbreak periods, i.e. free spread or lockdown periods, as well as diagnosed cases over time, provided that an initial data analysis is performed at the beginning of the outbreak. We also study the case of South Korea, where early measures where implemented against CoVid19. Finally, data indicates that a soft or hard lockdown result in the same outcome when fighting against CoVid19.

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