The interconnection between independent reactive control policies drives the stringency of local containment

Reyna-Lara, Adriana ; Soriano-Paños, David ; Arenas, Alex ; Gómez-Gardeñes, Jesús (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: The lack of medical treatments and vaccines upon the arrival of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has made non-pharmaceutical interventions the best allies in safeguarding human lives in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here we propose a self-organized epidemic model with multi-scale control policies that are relaxed or strengthened depending on the extent of the epidemic outbreak. We show that optimizing the balance between the effects of epidemic control and the associated socio-economic cost is strongly linked to the stringency of control measures. We also show that non-pharmaceutical interventions acting at different spatial scales, from creating social bubbles at the household level to constraining mobility between different cities, are strongly interrelated. We find that policy functionality changes for better or worse depending on network connectivity, meaning that some populations may allow for less restrictive measures than others if both have the same resources to respond to the evolving epidemic.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2022.112012

Año: 2022

Publicado en: Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 158 (2022), 112012 [8 pp.]
ISSN: 0960-0779

Factor impacto JCR: 7.8 (2022)

Categ. JCR: PHYSICS, MATHEMATICAL rank: 1 / 56 = 0.018 (2022) - Q1 - T1
Categ. JCR: MATHEMATICS, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS rank: 3 / 107 = 0.028 (2022) - Q1 - T1
Categ. JCR: PHYSICS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY rank: 11 / 85 = 0.129 (2022) - Q1 - T1

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 11.8 - Mathematics (Q1) - Physics and Astronomy (Q1)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 1.393 - Applied Mathematics (Q1) - Mathematical Physics (Q1) - Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (Q1) - Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) (Q1) - Mathematics (miscellaneous) (Q1)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/E36-17R-FENOL
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2020-113582GB-I00
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/PGC2018-094754-B-C21
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/UZ-IBERCAJA/224220

Tipo y forma: Artículo (Versión definitiva)

Área (Departamento): Área Física Materia Condensada (Dpto. Física Materia Condensa.)