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cord-260248-yp8x5zwi	Ngonghala, Calistus N	Mathematical assessment of the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on curtailing the 2019 novel Coronavirus	2020-04-18		.txt	text/plain	11136	526	53	The model, parameterized using available COVID-19 mortality data (more reliable than case data, provides a realistic real-time assessment and estimate of the burden of the pandemic in the US state of New York, in addition to assessing some of the main intervention strategies being implemented in the state (in particular, quarantine, isolation, contact-tracing, social-distancing and the use of face-masks in public). The model, which incorporates the main non-pharmaceutical interventions being implemented to curtail COVID-19 transmission in a community (such as social-distancing, quarantine of suspected cases, isolation of confirmed cases, contact-tracing, testing and use of face-masks in public), is formulated based on stratifying the total human population at time t, denoted by N (t), into the mutually-exclusive compartments of non-quarantined susceptible (S u (t)), quarantined susceptible (S q (t)), non-quarantined exposed (i.e., newly-infected individuals who do not yet show symptoms of the disease and cannot transmit infection, E u (t)), quarantined exposed (E q (t)), symptomatically-infectious (I u (t)), asymptomatically-infectious (I a (t)), hospitalized/isolated (I h (t)), intensive care patients (I icu (t)) and recovered (R(t)), so that	./cache/cord-260248-yp8x5zwi.txt	./txt/cord-260248-yp8x5zwi.txt