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q-bio.PE2020★ 5 cited
How long does a lockdown need to be?
Mariano Cadoni, Giuseppe Gaeta
Social distancing, often in the form of lockdown, has been adopted by many countries as a way to contrast the spreading of COVID-19. We discuss the temporal aspects of social dista…
q-bio.PE2020★ 42 cited
How to reduce epidemic peaks keeping under control the time-span of the epidemic
Mariano Cadoni
One of the main challenges of the measures against the COVID-19 epidemic is to reduce the amplitude of the epidemic peak without increasing without control its timescale. We invest…
q-bio.PE2020★ 56 cited
Size and timescale of epidemics in the SIR framework
Mariano Cadoni, Giuseppe Gaeta
The most important features to assess the severity of an epidemic are its size and its timescale. We discuss these features in a systematic way in the context of SIR and SIR-type m…