Alexanderia Lacy, Morganne Igoe, Praachi Das, Trevor Farthing, Alun L Lloyd, Cristina Lanzas, Agricola Odoi, Suzanne Lenhart
The region of St. Louis, Missouri, has displayed a high level of heterogeneity in COVID-19 cases, hospitalization, and vaccination coverage. We investigate how human mobility, vaccination, and time-varying transmission rates influenced SARS-CoV-2 transmission in five counties in the St. Louis area. A COVID-19 model with a system of ordinary differential equations was developed to illustrate the dynamics with a fully vaccinated class. Using the weekly number of vaccinations, cases, and hospitalization data from five counties in the greater St...
December 2023: Journal of Biological Dynamics