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Design of control strategies to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 pandemic

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  • Hosseini-Motlagh, Seyyed-Mahdi
  • Samani, Mohammad Reza Ghatreh
  • Homaei, Shamim

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This paper proposes control strategies to allocate COVID-19 patients to screening facilities, health facilities, and quarantine facilities for minimizing the spread of the virus by these patients. To calculate the transmission rate, we propose a function that accounts for contact rate, duration of the contact, age structure of the population, susceptibility to infection, and the number of transmission events per contact. Moreover, the COVID-19 cases are divided into different groups according to the severity of their disease and are allocated to appropriate health facilities that provide care tailored to their needs. The multi-stage fuzzy stochastic programming approach is applied to cope with uncertainty, in which the probability associated with nodes of the scenario tree is treated as fuzzy variables. To handle the probabilistic model, we use a more flexible measure, Me measure, which allows decision-makers to adopt varying attitudes by assigning the optimistic-pessimistic parameter. This measure does not force decision-makers to hold extreme views and obtain the interval solution that provides further information in the fuzzy environment. We apply the proposed model to the case of Tehran, Iran. The results of this study indicate that assigning patients to appropriate medical centers improves the performance of the healthcare system. The result analysis highlights the impact of the demographic differences on virus transmission, and the older population has a greater influence on virus transmission than other age groups. Besides, the results indicate that behavioral changes in the population and their vaccination play a key role in curbing COVID-19 transmission.

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  • Hosseini-Motlagh, Seyyed-Mahdi & Samani, Mohammad Reza Ghatreh & Homaei, Shamim, 2023. "Design of control strategies to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 pandemic," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 304(1), pages 219-238.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ejores:v:304:y:2023:i:1:p:219-238
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2021.11.016
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