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On a model of COVID-19 dynamics

Jorge Rebaza

Missouri State University, 901 National Avenue, Springfield, MO 65897, USA

Received  June 2020 Revised  September 2020 Published  June 2021 Early access  October 2020

A model of COVID-19 in an interconnected network of communities is studied. This model considers the dynamics of susceptible, asymptomatic and symptomatic individuals, deceased but not yet buried people, as well as the dynamics of the virus or pathogen at connected nodes or communities. People can move between communities carrying the virus to any node in the region of $ n $ communities (or patches). This model considers both virus direct (person to person) and indirect (contaminated environment to person) transmissions. Using either matrix and graph-theoretic methods and some combinatorial identities, appropriate Lyapunov functions are constructed to study global stability properties of both the disease-free and the endemic equilibrium of the corresponding system of $ 5n $ differential equations.

Keywords: Epidemics, COVID-19, global stability, Lyapunov functions.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary:37B25, 92D30;Secondary:92D25.
Citation: Jorge Rebaza. On a model of COVID-19 dynamics. Electronic Research Archive, 2021, 29 (2) : 2129-2140. doi: 10.3934/era.2020108
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[2]

K. Bessey, M. Mavis, J. Rebaza and J. Zhang, Global stability analysis of a general model of Zika virus, Nonauton. Dyn. Syst., 6 (2019), 18-34.  doi: 10.1515/msds-2019-0002.  Google Scholar

[3]

M. Calmon, Considerations of coronavirus (COVID-19) impact and the management of the dead in Brazil, Forensic Science Internat: Reports, 2020. In press. doi: 10.1016/j.fsir.2020.100110.  Google Scholar

[4]

Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), 2020. Available from: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html. Google Scholar

[5]

C. Cross, A. Edwards, D. Mercadante and J. Rebaza, Dynamics of a networked connectivity model of epidemics, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. Ser. B, 21 (2016), 3379-3390.  doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2016102.  Google Scholar

[6]

R. Cui, Asymptotic profiles of the endemic equilibrium of a reaction-diffusion-advection SIS epidemic model with saturated incidence rate, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. Ser. B, (2020). doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2020217.  Google Scholar

[7]

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[9]

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[12]

A. Iggidr, G. Sallet and M. O. Souza, On the dynamics of a class of multi-group models for vector-borne diseases, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 441 (2016), 723-743.  doi: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2016.04.003.  Google Scholar

[13]

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R. Zhang, Y. Li, A. L. Zhang, Y. Wang and M. J. Molina, Identifying airborne transmission as the dominant route for the spread of COVID-19, Proc. of National Acad. of Sciences, 117 (2020), 14857-14863.  doi: 10.1073/pnas.2009637117.  Google Scholar

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