Epidemiological model for the inhomogeneous spatial spreading of COVID-19 and other diseases
Epidemiological model for the inhomogeneous spatial spreading of COVID-19 and other diseases
We suggest a novel mathematical framework for the in-homogeneous spatial spreading of an infectious disease in human population, with particular attention to COVID-19. Common epidemiological models, e.g., the well-known susceptible-exposed-infectious-recovered (SEIR) model, implicitly assume uniform (random) encounters between the infectious and susceptible sub-populations, resulting in homogeneous spatial distributions. However, in …