| Literature DB >> 36060203 |
Silvio Salej Higgins1, Adrian Hinojosa Luna2, Andreia Maria Pinto Rabelo3, Reinaldo Onofre Dos Santos3, Vanessa Cardoso Ferreira3.
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed several dilemmas for managers in the public sector, with school reopening being among the most complex decisions. The present article presents a microsimulation model of the pandemic course considering various scenarios within the confines of a classroom in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. For that, a susceptible-infectious-recovered (SIR) model was integrated with a random graph model, associating epidemiological characteristics with sociometric and sociodemographic factors. Social contact rates projected for Brazil in the European POLYMOD project were adapted for the city of Belo Horizonte to simulate the number of contacts among individuals considering a Poisson distribution. The simulation used as reference a group of 20 students and their families. The projected scenarios discriminated three age groups with their respective rate of daily social contacts: 0 to 5 years (0.01), 6 a 14 years (1.80), and 15 to 19 years (0.20). The simulations showed clear differences between these age groups, depending on the initial number of infected individuals and on the use or not of face masks in the school. The results confirm that the absence of adequate mitigation measures entails a considerable increase in transmission in the school setting.Entities:
Keywords: COVID-19; computer simulation; disease transmission, infectious; epidemiology; stochastic processes
Year: 2022 PMID: 36060203 PMCID: PMC9426948 DOI: 10.26633/RPSP.2022.117
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Rev Panam Salud Publica ISSN: 1020-4989
Pico de infecções de COVID-19 em dias a partir da simulação de contágio tomando como referência uma turma de 20 crianças e jovens[a]
|
Faixa etária (anos) |
Número inicial de infectados |
Dia do pico de infecção, sem máscara |
Dia do pico de infecção, com máscara |
|---|---|---|---|
|
0 a 5 |
1 |
30° |
60° |
|
5 |
12° |
22° | |
|
10 |
12° |
30° | |
|
6 a 14 |
1 |
9° |
15° |
|
5 |
7° |
10° | |
|
10 |
6° |
9° | |
|
15 a 19 |
1 |
8° |
13° |
|
5 |
6° |
11° | |
|
10 |
6° |
9° |
O modelo considerou estudantes autorizados a frequentar a escola sob a obrigação de vestir máscara de proteção respiratória comum, com eficácia média de bloqueio de 68,5%.
FIGURA 1.Grafo gerado para simulação de infecções por COVID-19 para a faixa etária de 6 a 14 anos em uma turma escolar com um infectado por COVID-19, sem uso de máscara facial, considerando o 5º dia após a retomada das aulas[a]