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A robust prediction from a minimal model of COVID-19 — Can we avoid the third wave?

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  • Sourav Chowdhury

    (Department of Physics, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), 30 Mother Teresa Sarani, Kolkata 700016, West Bengal, India)

  • Suparna Roychowdhury

    (Department of Physics, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), 30 Mother Teresa Sarani, Kolkata 700016, West Bengal, India)

  • Indranath Chaudhuri

    (Department of Physics, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), 30 Mother Teresa Sarani, Kolkata 700016, West Bengal, India)

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic is one of the major disasters that humanity has ever faced. In this paper, we try to model the effect of vaccination in controlling the pandemic, particularly in context to the third wave which is predicted to hit globally. Here, we have modified the susceptible–exposed–infected–recovered–dead model by introducing a vaccination term. One of our main assumptions is that the infection rate (β(t)) is oscillatory. This oscillatory nature has been discussed earlier in literature with reference to the seasonality of epidemics. However, in our case, we invoke this nature of the infection rate (β(t)) to model the cyclical behavior of the COVID-19 pandemic within a short period. This study focuses on a minimalistic approach where we have logically deduced that the infection rate (β(t)) and the vaccination rate (λ) are the most important parameters while the other parameters can be assumed to be constants throughout the simulation. Finally, we have studied the rich interplay between the infection rate (β(t)) and the vaccination rate (λ) on the infectious cases of COVID-19 and made some robust conclusions regarding the global behavior of this pandemic in near future.

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  • Sourav Chowdhury & Suparna Roychowdhury & Indranath Chaudhuri, 2022. "A robust prediction from a minimal model of COVID-19 — Can we avoid the third wave?," International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 33(07), pages 1-16, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijmpcx:v:33:y:2022:i:07:n:s012918312250098x
    DOI: 10.1142/S012918312250098X
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    1. Ruz, Soumendra Nath, 2023. "Amazing aspects of inequality indices (Gini and Kolkata Index) of COVID-19 confirmed cases in India," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 632(P2).

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