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Controlling the spread of COVID-19 on college campuses.

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Borowiak, M; Ning, F; Pei, J; Zhao, S; Tung, H-R; Durrett, R
Published in: Mathematical biosciences and engineering : MBE
December 2020

This research was done during the DOMath program at Duke University from May 18 to July 10, 2020. At the time, Duke and other universities across the country were wrestling with the question of how to safely welcome students back to campus in the Fall. Because of this, our project focused on using mathematical models to evaluate strategies to suppress the spread of the virus on campus, specifically in dorms and in classrooms. For dorms, we show that giving students single rooms rather than double rooms can substantially reduce virus spread. For classrooms, we show that moving classes with size above some cutoff online can make the basic reproduction number $ R_0 < 1 $, preventing a wide spread epidemic. The cutoff will depend on the contagiousness of the disease in classrooms.

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Mathematical biosciences and engineering : MBE

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EISSN

1551-0018

ISSN

1547-1063

Publication Date

December 2020

Volume

18

Issue

1

Start / End Page

551 / 563

Related Subject Headings

  • Universities
  • Students
  • Student Health Services
  • Residence Characteristics
  • Physical Distancing
  • Models, Theoretical
  • Humans
  • Disease Outbreaks
  • COVID-19
  • Bioinformatics
 

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Borowiak, M., Ning, F., Pei, J., Zhao, S., Tung, H.-R., & Durrett, R. (2020). Controlling the spread of COVID-19 on college campuses. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering : MBE, 18(1), 551–563. https://doi.org/10.3934/mbe.2021030
Borowiak, Molly, Fayfay Ning, Justin Pei, Sarah Zhao, Hwai-Ray Tung, and Rick Durrett. “Controlling the spread of COVID-19 on college campuses.Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering : MBE 18, no. 1 (December 2020): 551–63. https://doi.org/10.3934/mbe.2021030.
Borowiak M, Ning F, Pei J, Zhao S, Tung H-R, Durrett R. Controlling the spread of COVID-19 on college campuses. Mathematical biosciences and engineering : MBE. 2020 Dec;18(1):551–63.
Borowiak, Molly, et al. “Controlling the spread of COVID-19 on college campuses.Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering : MBE, vol. 18, no. 1, Dec. 2020, pp. 551–63. Epmc, doi:10.3934/mbe.2021030.
Borowiak M, Ning F, Pei J, Zhao S, Tung H-R, Durrett R. Controlling the spread of COVID-19 on college campuses. Mathematical biosciences and engineering : MBE. 2020 Dec;18(1):551–563.

Published In

Mathematical biosciences and engineering : MBE

DOI

EISSN

1551-0018

ISSN

1547-1063

Publication Date

December 2020

Volume

18

Issue

1

Start / End Page

551 / 563

Related Subject Headings

  • Universities
  • Students
  • Student Health Services
  • Residence Characteristics
  • Physical Distancing
  • Models, Theoretical
  • Humans
  • Disease Outbreaks
  • COVID-19
  • Bioinformatics