Controlling the spread of COVID-19 on college campuses

DOI10.3934/MBE.2021030zbMATH Open1471.92291arXiv2008.07293OpenAlexW3112358339WikidataQ108328611 ScholiaQ108328611MaRDI QIDQ1980100FDOQ1980100

Authors: Molly Borowiak, Fayfay Ning, Justin Pei, Sarah Zhao, Hwai-Ray Tung, Rick Durrett 

Publication date: 3 September 2021

Published in: Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This research was done during the DOMath program at Duke University from May 18 to July 10, 2020. At the time, Duke and other universities across the country were wrestling with the question of how to safely welcome students back to campus in the Fall. Because of this, our project focused on using mathematical models to evaluate strategies to suppress the spread of the virus on campus, specifically in dorms and in classrooms. For dorms, we show that giving students single rooms rather than double rooms can substantially reduce virus spread. For classrooms, we show that moving classes with size above some cutoff online can make the basic reproduction number $R_0<1$, preventing a wide spread epidemic. The cutoff will depend on the contagiousness of the disease in classrooms.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07293

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zbMATH Keywords

basic reproduction numbercritical valueSIR epidemicPerron-Frobenius theoremhousehold model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Epidemiology (92D30)

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