Exploring a COVID-19 endemic scenario: high-resolution agent-based modeling of multiple variants

COVID-19 pandemic has affected our daily lives for over two years. Despite the widespread use of vaccines, there are still questions on how to tackle the development of new variants.

In their new paper, Postdoctoral Associate Agnieszka Truszkowska (NYU, now at The University of Alabama in Huntsville), collaborators Lorenzo Zino (University of Groningen, now Polytechnic University of Turin), Prof. Sachit Butail (Northern Illinois University), Prof. Emanuele Caroppo (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), Prof. Zhong-Ping Jiang (NYU), Prof. Alessandro Rizzo (Polytechnic University of Turin), and Prof. Maurizio Porfiri (NYU), developed a high-resolution simulation of the spreading of two concurrent strains of COVID-19. By simulating different scenarios, they highlighted the interventions that are more efficacious in containing new variants.

Read the paper “Exploring a COVID-19 endemic scenario: high-resolution agent-based modeling of multiple variants”, published in Advanced Theory and Simulations here.

Image credit: Anna Sawulska, Alain Boldini, and Maurizio Porfiri.