Agent-based Modeling of COVID-19 Infection Rate vis-à-vis the Philippine Government Community Quarantine and Face Covering Measures

The COVID-19 pandemic has uprooted the normal lives and routines of Filipinos. Dubbed as the ‘new normal,’ the wearing of face masks and face shields and adherence to social distancing and the community quarantines have been enforced by the Philippine government to all its citizens. The primary conc...

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Main Authors: Agustin, Alfonso D, Ferrer, Justine C, Bolingot, Harold Jay M, Celestre, John Donnie I, Oppus, Carlos M, Monje, Jose Claro N
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spelling ph-ateneo-arc.ecce-faculty-pubs-11032022-03-01T07:37:32Z Agent-based Modeling of COVID-19 Infection Rate vis-à-vis the Philippine Government Community Quarantine and Face Covering Measures Agustin, Alfonso D Ferrer, Justine C Bolingot, Harold Jay M Celestre, John Donnie I Oppus, Carlos M Monje, Jose Claro N The COVID-19 pandemic has uprooted the normal lives and routines of Filipinos. Dubbed as the ‘new normal,’ the wearing of face masks and face shields and adherence to social distancing and the community quarantines have been enforced by the Philippine government to all its citizens. The primary concern is to slow down the spread of SARS-CoV-2 virus absent of widespread and available pharmaceutical interventions such as vaccines and therapies, in the hopes of keeping the overall healthcare system functional. In this study, the researchers use NetLogo, an agent-based modeling software to emulate such government measures on a closed population of agents and observe the effects on the spread of COVID-19. Running different simulation scenarios, the researchers find that the NetLogo model is able to predict long- term trends imposed by these government restrictions. The results show that through increasing the number of people using face coverings and restricting interactions through enforcement of community quarantines, the rise of infections can be decreased substantially. The results of our model are consistent with the Philippine government’s collated pandemic data on the effect of the enforcement of restrictions to the ongoing outbreak during certain time periods in the year 2020. 2021-01-01T08:00:00Z text https://archium.ateneo.edu/ecce-faculty-pubs/110 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9664664 Electronics, Computer, and Communications Engineering Faculty Publications Archīum Ateneo COVID-19 limiting pandemics contacts government predictive models agent-based modeling COVID-19 pandemic face shields face masks government measures NetLogo Electrical and Computer Engineering Public Health
institution Ateneo De Manila University
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topic COVID-19
limiting
pandemics
contacts
government
predictive models
agent-based modeling
COVID-19 pandemic
face shields
face masks
government measures
NetLogo
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Public Health
spellingShingle COVID-19
limiting
pandemics
contacts
government
predictive models
agent-based modeling
COVID-19 pandemic
face shields
face masks
government measures
NetLogo
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Public Health
Agustin, Alfonso D
Ferrer, Justine C
Bolingot, Harold Jay M
Celestre, John Donnie I
Oppus, Carlos M
Monje, Jose Claro N
Agent-based Modeling of COVID-19 Infection Rate vis-à-vis the Philippine Government Community Quarantine and Face Covering Measures
description The COVID-19 pandemic has uprooted the normal lives and routines of Filipinos. Dubbed as the ‘new normal,’ the wearing of face masks and face shields and adherence to social distancing and the community quarantines have been enforced by the Philippine government to all its citizens. The primary concern is to slow down the spread of SARS-CoV-2 virus absent of widespread and available pharmaceutical interventions such as vaccines and therapies, in the hopes of keeping the overall healthcare system functional. In this study, the researchers use NetLogo, an agent-based modeling software to emulate such government measures on a closed population of agents and observe the effects on the spread of COVID-19. Running different simulation scenarios, the researchers find that the NetLogo model is able to predict long- term trends imposed by these government restrictions. The results show that through increasing the number of people using face coverings and restricting interactions through enforcement of community quarantines, the rise of infections can be decreased substantially. The results of our model are consistent with the Philippine government’s collated pandemic data on the effect of the enforcement of restrictions to the ongoing outbreak during certain time periods in the year 2020.
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author Agustin, Alfonso D
Ferrer, Justine C
Bolingot, Harold Jay M
Celestre, John Donnie I
Oppus, Carlos M
Monje, Jose Claro N
author_facet Agustin, Alfonso D
Ferrer, Justine C
Bolingot, Harold Jay M
Celestre, John Donnie I
Oppus, Carlos M
Monje, Jose Claro N
author_sort Agustin, Alfonso D
title Agent-based Modeling of COVID-19 Infection Rate vis-à-vis the Philippine Government Community Quarantine and Face Covering Measures
title_short Agent-based Modeling of COVID-19 Infection Rate vis-à-vis the Philippine Government Community Quarantine and Face Covering Measures
title_full Agent-based Modeling of COVID-19 Infection Rate vis-à-vis the Philippine Government Community Quarantine and Face Covering Measures
title_fullStr Agent-based Modeling of COVID-19 Infection Rate vis-à-vis the Philippine Government Community Quarantine and Face Covering Measures
title_full_unstemmed Agent-based Modeling of COVID-19 Infection Rate vis-à-vis the Philippine Government Community Quarantine and Face Covering Measures
title_sort agent-based modeling of covid-19 infection rate vis-à-vis the philippine government community quarantine and face covering measures
publisher Archīum Ateneo
publishDate 2021
url https://archium.ateneo.edu/ecce-faculty-pubs/110
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9664664
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