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Optimal Immunity Control and Final Size Minimization by Social Distancing for the SIR Epidemic Model

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The aim of this article is to understand how to apply partial or total containment to SIR epidemic model during a given finite time interval in order to minimize the epidemic final size, that is the cumulative number of cases infected during the complete course of an epidemic. The existence and uniqueness of an optimal strategy is proved for this infinite-horizon problem and a full characterization of the solution is provided. The best policy consists in applying the maximal allowed social distancing effort until the end of the interval, starting at a date that is not always the closest date and may be found by a simple algorithm. Both theoretical results and numerical simulations demonstrate that it leads to a significant decrease of the epidemic final size. We show that in any case the optimal intervention has to begin before the number of susceptible cases has crossed the herd immunity level, and that its limit is always smaller than this threshold. This problem is also shown to be equivalent to the minimum containment time necessary to stop at a given distance after this threshold value.
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hal-02862922 , version 1 (09-06-2020)
hal-02862922 , version 2 (31-01-2021)

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Pierre-Alexandre Bliman, Michel Duprez, Yannick Privat, Nicolas Vauchelet. Optimal Immunity Control and Final Size Minimization by Social Distancing for the SIR Epidemic Model. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 2021, 189 (2), pp.408--436. ⟨10.1007/s10957-021-01830-1⟩. ⟨hal-02862922v2⟩
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