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The Effect of School/Workplace Closures on COVID-19 Related Incidents

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The Effect of School/Workplace Closures on COVID-19 Related Incidents

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Contagious diseases have wreaked havoc on human communities since ancient times. Ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has caused millions of incidents and deaths so far and continues to effect all over the world in the near future. One of ways to stop and slow down a pandemic in absent from proper and effective drugs and vaccines is workplace/school closures limiting people interactions and spread of the disease. In this study, we consider workplace/school closures as an intervention strategy to observe the effect on overall incidents and deaths. Six scenarios, covering workplace and school closures together or separately and applications in different times during the pandemic, are tested for a SIR (Susceptible-Infectious-Recovery) network model where people can interact with others in their homes, schools, and workplaces daily. People in the model are divided into five age groups. Each individual is assigned to a home and school or workplace with a given probability regarding to his/her age. People contact with others in their networks (school, workplace, and home) every day and can be infected with a given probability if they interact with sick people. We calibrate sickness probability according to the attack rate derived from COVID-19 related data of six countries. Results show that applying any of intervention strategies as soon as the pandemic begins makes huge differences in terms of overall cases compared to applying them around the peak times. Overall cases decrease by 40% and 65% for the high attack rate (10%) and COVID-19 related attack rate (3.2%) when workplace/school closures are applied 2 weeks after the pandemic has started. Moreover, results imply that even closing schools and workplaces in two weeks does not stop the spread of diseases completely based on recovery times uniformly distributed between 6 and 9 days.

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Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

30 Nisan 2021

Gönderilme Tarihi

18 Aralık 2020

Kabul Tarihi

12 Mart 2021

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2021 Sayı: 23

Kaynak Göster

APA
Demirbilek, M. (2021). The Effect of School/Workplace Closures on COVID-19 Related Incidents. Avrupa Bilim ve Teknoloji Dergisi, 23, 62-69. https://doi.org/10.31590/ejosat.842793
AMA
1.Demirbilek M. The Effect of School/Workplace Closures on COVID-19 Related Incidents. EJOSAT. 2021;(23):62-69. doi:10.31590/ejosat.842793
Chicago
Demirbilek, Mustafa. 2021. “The Effect of School/Workplace Closures on COVID-19 Related Incidents”. Avrupa Bilim ve Teknoloji Dergisi, sy 23: 62-69. https://doi.org/10.31590/ejosat.842793.
EndNote
Demirbilek M (01 Nisan 2021) The Effect of School/Workplace Closures on COVID-19 Related Incidents. Avrupa Bilim ve Teknoloji Dergisi 23 62–69.
IEEE
[1]M. Demirbilek, “The Effect of School/Workplace Closures on COVID-19 Related Incidents”, EJOSAT, sy 23, ss. 62–69, Nis. 2021, doi: 10.31590/ejosat.842793.
ISNAD
Demirbilek, Mustafa. “The Effect of School/Workplace Closures on COVID-19 Related Incidents”. Avrupa Bilim ve Teknoloji Dergisi. 23 (01 Nisan 2021): 62-69. https://doi.org/10.31590/ejosat.842793.
JAMA
1.Demirbilek M. The Effect of School/Workplace Closures on COVID-19 Related Incidents. EJOSAT. 2021;:62–69.
MLA
Demirbilek, Mustafa. “The Effect of School/Workplace Closures on COVID-19 Related Incidents”. Avrupa Bilim ve Teknoloji Dergisi, sy 23, Nisan 2021, ss. 62-69, doi:10.31590/ejosat.842793.
Vancouver
1.Mustafa Demirbilek. The Effect of School/Workplace Closures on COVID-19 Related Incidents. EJOSAT. 01 Nisan 2021;(23):62-9. doi:10.31590/ejosat.842793

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