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  • Epidemiology
  • Public Health Policy
  • Computational Modeling

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  • Effective containment of COVID-19 requires balancing interventions with national constraints.
  • Existing models often lack the dynamic, structured framework needed to evaluate diverse scenarios.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel optimal decision support framework for pandemic containment.
  • To incorporate disease characteristics, healthcare parameters, and socio-economic factors into intervention modeling.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a reinforcement learning-based agent.
  • Developed a closed-loop control model for disease transmission dynamics.
  • Derived constrained optimal policies for intervention tuning.

Main Results:

  • The framework effectively models and evaluates various intervention scenarios.
  • Optimized policies were derived considering pandemic and societal factors.
  • Demonstrated a structured approach to minimize pandemic impact.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed framework offers a dynamic approach to pandemic response planning.
  • It enables informed decision-making by integrating epidemiological, healthcare, and socio-economic data.
  • This approach is crucial for managing widespread respiratory infectious pandemics.