id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-151198-4fjya9wn Rogers, L C G Ending the COVID-19 epidemic in the United Kingdom 2020-04-26 .txt text/plain 4668 192 60 Social distancing and lockdown are the two main non-pharmaceutical interventions being used by the UK government to contain and control the COVID-19 epidemic; these are being applied uniformly across the entire country, even though the results of the Imperial College report by Ferguson et al show that the impact of the infection increases sharply with age. We will denote by N j (t) the total number of j-individuals in the population at time t, and allow this to change gradually with the influx of new births, visitors from other countries; this is to model the possibility that new infecteds come in from outside and reignite the epidemic. where ι j and σ j are known functions of time representing the arrival of new asymptomatic infec-1 https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1tbB47uSGIA0WehY-hvIYgdO0mpnZU5A8 tives and susceptibles respectively 2 ; and the final term on the right-hand side of (3) allows for the possibility that removed infectives may not in fact be immune, and some may return to the population ready for reinfection. ./cache/cord-151198-4fjya9wn.txt ./txt/cord-151198-4fjya9wn.txt