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Area of Science:

  • Epidemiology
  • Mathematical Biology
  • Immunology

Background:

  • Understanding viral dynamics is crucial, especially with multiple variants and varied host immune responses.
  • Existing models may not fully capture complex interactions between viral strains and population immunity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a framework for modeling the spread of multiple virus variants with heterogeneous immune responses.
  • To analyze infection dynamics, including variant-specific proportions and individual re-infection histories.
  • To compare analytical and numerical methods for different epidemic scenarios.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a novel framework based on the SIR (Susceptible-Infected-Recovered) model.
  • Incorporated heterogeneous immune responses by varying epitope response probabilities.
  • Utilized analytical calculations for discrete epidemics and numerical solutions of Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) for co-circulating strains.

Main Results:

  • The framework accurately calculates the proportion of the population infected by each variant.
  • Quantified the number of infections per host across multiple epidemics.
  • Demonstrated analytical methods reduce computational load for discrete epidemics but are insufficient for concurrent strains.

Conclusions:

  • The presented framework offers a robust method for studying multi-variant viral dynamics and immune histories.
  • Analytical solutions are efficient for distinct epidemic waves.
  • Full ODE solutions are necessary to accurately model complex scenarios with co-circulating viral strains.