A primer on using mathematics to understand COVID-19 dynamics: Modeling, analysis and simulations

AB Gumel, EA Iboi, CN Ngonghala… - Infectious Disease …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that emerged from Wuhan city in
December 2019 overwhelmed health systems and paralyzed economies around the world. It …

Mathematical modeling and analysis of COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria

E Iboi, OO Sharomi, C Ngonghala, AB Gumel - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Abstract A novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), caused by SARS-CoV-2, emerged from the
Wuhan city of China at the end of 2019, causing devastating public health and socio …

Resilience and wellbeing strategies for pandemic fatigue in times of Covid-19

Z Zarowsky, T Rashid - International Journal of Applied Positive …, 2023 - Springer
The COVID-19 pandemic is truly one of the greatest collective health crises in history which
have altered our life and living. For years, people have felt fatigued from following public …

Unraveling the dynamics of the Omicron and Delta variants of the 2019 coronavirus in the presence of vaccination, mask usage, and antiviral treatment

CN Ngonghala, HB Taboe, S Safdar… - Applied mathematical …, 2023 - Elsevier
The effectiveness of control interventions against COVID-19 is threatened by the emergence
of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern. We present a mathematical model for studying the …

Modeling COVID-19 dynamic using a two-strain model with vaccination

UAP de León, E Avila-Vales, K Huang - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2022 - Elsevier
Multiple strains of the SARS-CoV-2 have arisen and jointly influence the trajectory of the
coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. However, current models rarely account for this …

Toward achieving a vaccine-derived herd immunity threshold for COVID-19 in the US

AB Gumel, EA Iboi, CN Ngonghala… - Frontiers in Public …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
A novel coronavirus emerged in December of 2019 (COVID-19), causing a pandemic that
inflicted unprecedented public health and economic burden in all nooks and corners of the …

A simulation-deep reinforcement learning (SiRL) approach for epidemic control optimization

S Bushaj, X Yin, A Beqiri, D Andrews… - Annals of Operations …, 2023 - Springer
In this paper, we address the controversies of epidemic control planning by developing a
novel Simulation-Deep Reinforcement Learning (SiRL) model. COVID-19 reminded …

Will vaccine-derived protective immunity curtail COVID-19 variants in the US?

M Mancuso, SE Eikenberry, AB Gumel - Infectious Disease Modelling, 2021 - Elsevier
Multiple effective vaccines are currently being deployed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic,
and are viewed as the major factor in marked reductions of disease burden in regions with …

Predicting COVID-19 spread in the face of control measures in West Africa

HB Taboe, KV Salako, JM Tison, CN Ngonghala… - Mathematical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is causing devastating demographic,
social, and economic damage globally. Understanding current patterns of the pandemic …

A multiscale model of COVID-19 dynamics

X Wang, S Wang, J Wang, L Rong - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2022 - Springer
COVID-19, caused by the infection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), has been a global pandemic and created unprecedented public health …