Funding Information: The first author acknowledges FCT within the PhD grants \u201CDOCTORATES 4 COVID\u201D, grant number 2020.10172.BD. The second and third authors also acknowledge FCT within project UIDB/04621/2020 (Center for Computational and Stochastic Mathematics https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDB/04621/2020). Publisher Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s); This study introduces a SIR (Susceptible-Infectious-Recov...
Funding Information: Constantino Caetano acknowledges FCT within the PhD grants \u201CDOCTORATES 4 COVID\u201D, grant number 2020.10172.BD. Lu\u00EDsa Morgado and Pedro Lima also acknowledge FCT within project UIDB/04621/2020 (Center for Computational and Stochastic Mathematics https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDB/04621/2020). Lander Willem gratefully acknowledges support from the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) (A...
Funding Information: The research conducted by D.M.H. and N.H. in this study was funded by the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onder-zoek—Vlaanderen (Research Foundation—Flanders; FWO, http://www.fwo.be/en/) (Grant Agreements G0E8416N and G0B2317N). The research done by J.D.S. and A.M.V. in this study has been supported in part by Grants G.0692.14 and G0B2317N, funded by the FWO, Belgium. P.J.K.L. was supported By a PhD...
Background: Current outbreaks of COVID-19 are threatening the health care systems of several countries around the world. Control measures, based on isolation, contact tracing, and quarantine, can decrease and delay the burden of the ongoing epidemic. With respect to the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic, recent modeling work shows that these interventions may be inadequate to control local outbreaks, even when perfect ...