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Alexis Erich S Almocera1, Alejandro H González2, Esteban A Hernandez-Vargas3,4
1Department of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science, College of Science and Mathematics, University of the Philippines Mindanao, Davao City, Philippines.
Abstract:
Emerging and re-emerging pathogens are latent threats in our society with the risk of killing millions of people worldwide, without forgetting the severe economic and educational backlogs. From COVID-19, we learned that self isolation and quarantine restrictions (confinement) were the main way of protection till availability of vaccines. However, abrupt lifting of social confinement would result in new waves of new infection cases and high death tolls. Here, inspired by how an extracellular solution can make water move into or out of a cell through osmosis, we define confinement tonicity. This can serve as a standalone measurement for the net direction and magnitude of flows between the confined and deconfined susceptible compartments. Numerical results offer insights on the effects of easing quarantine restrictions.
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