Optimal, near-optimal, and robust epidemic control

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the need for non-pharmaceutical epidemic mitigation strategies that can be effective even if they are limited in duration. Here, the authors derive analytically optimal and near-optimal time-limited strategies for limiting the epidemic peak in the Susceptible-I...

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Main Authors: Dylan H. Morris, Fernando W. Rossine, Joshua B. Plotkin, Simon A. Levin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-04-01
Series:Communications Physics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-021-00570-y