PLoS ONE (Jan 2022)

Stochastic epidemiological model: Simulations of the SARS-CoV-2 spreading in Mexico.

  • Pablo Carlos López Vázquez,
  • Gilberto Sánchez González,
  • Jorge Martínez Ortega,
  • Renato Salomón Arroyo Duarte

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275216
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 9
p. e0275216

Abstract

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In this paper we model the spreading of the SARS-CoV-2 in Mexico by introducing a new stochastic approximation constructed from first principles, where the number of new infected individuals caused by a single infectious individual per unit time (a day), is a random variable of a time-dependent Poisson distribution. The model, structured on the basis of a Latent-Infectious-(Recovered or Deceased) (LI(RD)) compartmental approximation together with a modulation of the mean number of new infections (the Poisson parameters), provides a good tool to study theoretical and real scenarios.