Impact of Media-Induced Fear on the Control of COVID-19 Outbreak: A Mathematical Study

<table class="table-group" id="tab1"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Parameters</td><td class="align_center">Interpretation</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"><i>r</i></td><td class="align_center">Recruitment rate of susceptible which includes immigrants and newborns</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"><i>β</i></td><td class="align_center">Disease transmission rate</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"><i>µ</i></td><td class="align_center">Natural death rate of population</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"><i>c</i></td><td class="align_center">Infection rate from exposed class</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"><i>γ</i></td><td class="align_center">Rate at which infected people are getting isolated</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"><i>d</i></td><td class="align_center">Disease-induced death rate</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"><i>d</i><sub>1</sub></td><td class="align_center">The rate at which infected people are recovered</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"><i>λ</i></td><td class="align_center">Recovery rate from isolated class</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"><i>α</i></td><td class="align_center">The effect of fear through media coverage</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>Parameters and their descriptions.</div>

International Journal of Differential Equations

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Table 1: Impact of Media-Induced Fear on the Control of COVID-19 Outbreak: A Mathematical Study 