COVID-19 has a genetic makeup identical to that of the SARS-CoV and
MERS-CoV however, it di?ers apprehensively in the context of the number of
cases, location and spread rate of this infection; SARS originating in China in
late 2002 had over 8000 cases, death toll of 774 spread across 30 countries worldwide
similarly, MERS prevailed in September of 2012 in Saudi Arabia with 2500,
death toll of 850 circumscribed mainly in the Arabian peninsula. Both
SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV are deemed diminutive to COVID-19 in reference
to number of cases, death toll, mainlands and spread speed: as of April 24, 2019
COVID-19 has recorded of approximately 2:5 million cases, a death toll of 180
thousand and in 213 countries covering all continents but Antartica .
When the spread speed of COVID-19 is juxtaposed with SARS-Co it was found
that the \serial interval", the interval between consecutive infections, was twice
as that of SARS-CoV.
Susceptible Infectious Recovered (SIR) and Susceptible Exposed Infectious Re-
covered (SEIR) are two analogous models that commonly being used in Mathematical
Epidemiology for the modeling of infectious diseases . However,
these models are di?erent in the sense of the latency (Exposed) class located
in the SEIR model, which tends to delay the prevalence of the outbreak; both
models consist of a set of nonlinear di?erential equations solved using numerical
iterative techniques .
The adopted mathematical model in this simulator considers the Susceptible
Exposed Infectious Recovered SEIR with the addition of vital dynamics and a
quarantine class hence the name SEIQR to elicit the true e?ect of COVID-19
on the modeling process: the e?ectiveness of the simulators predictions relies
heavily on adequacy of the mathematical model in predicting values precisely
with minimal complexity. Discrepancies in predictions in previous studies, are
mostly a consequence of failing to separate the con?rmed cases (Quarantine
class) and the anonymous cases (Infectious class) that are directly transmitted
to the Recovered class hence highlighting the importance of the Quarantine
class in our simulator. The adopted model will also add the supposition that the
entire population is inherently Susceptible and transmuting into the Recovered
category does not ensure immunity. The basis on which a Quarantine class was
added is imputed to nature of the data and this categories importance in elucidating
the actual precautions being taken in the Jordanian kingdom; adding the
quarantine category is rather common when modeling infectious disease [9, 10].
Though there isn't a direct relation in the equations between the Quarantine
class and the Infectious class the byproduct of adding this class is most apparent
on the speed of the outbreak along with the contact between the population
which in turn will impact the transmission rate hence repressing the disease.
The SEIQR model encompases several other constants such as the incumbency
period which are reected in the constant rates of the model such as the immunity
rate of the disease. Constant rates deeply impact the credibility of the
model in terms of outbreak value and time, all constant rates have been chosen
to best emulate the actual conditions in the Jordanian kingdom; it's very
common that several constant rate values ?t the model felicitously however give
inconsistent predictions.Optimization of the constant rate values are computed
using mathematical algorithms that ensure convergence of the global minima at
e?ective speed. This simulator will predict the trends of the rates of Susceptible
(S), latent (E), Infectious (I), Quarantined (Q) and recovered (R)groups
overtime prevailing the peak value of the infectious population, the number of
days for the peak of the infectious population and the number of days where the
entire susceptible class population shifts into the recovered class simultaneously
(this value will dismay the mortality rate).
-We developed a python based system that takes all the needed parameters and predicts the spreading outputs.
What inspired your team to choose this challenge?
because we believe math can save lives and help people welfare
we saw countries are suffering to predict many things related to COVID-19 spreading especially information related to people such as infection rate and so on.
What was your approach to developing this project?
We first developed the mathematical model to achieve the system needs.
then we test and modify the math models after proofing its soundness
start data engineering for our NASA realted data sources
build the SW system
Test the system against the given data
Test the result against real values and check for gaps
Deploy the system
What tools, coding languages, hardware, software did you use to develop your project?
-Python
-Matlab
-Github
-JavaScript
What problems and achievements did your team have?
Problems:
Time
Team member collection
Achievements:
-Fully Deployed System for predicting several COVID-19 people related figures
-A new model for prediction COVID-behavior
-New Team Members which includes (Designer and Developer and Mathmaticions)Mathematicians
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