Chaos theory applied to the outbreak of COVID-19: an ancillary approach to decision making in pandemic context.

Epidemiol Infect

Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère., CESBIO/OMP, UMR UPS-CNES-CNRS-IRD-INRA, 18, Av. Edouard Belin, 31401Toulouse Cedex 9, France.

Published: May 2020

While predicting the course of an epidemic is difficult, predicting the course of a pandemic from an emerging virus is even more so. The validity of most predictive models relies on numerous parameters, involving biological and social characteristics often unknown or highly uncertain. Data of the COVID-19 epidemics in China, Japan, South Korea and Italy were used to build up deterministic models without strong assumptions. These models were then applied to other countries to identify the closest scenarios in order to foresee their coming behaviour. The models enabled to predict situations that were confirmed little by little, proving that these tools can be efficient and useful for decision making in a quickly evolving operational context.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7231667PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268820000990DOI Listing

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