Research Article
A Mathematical Model of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Bangkok, Thailand
Table 2
Parameters used in the model and their meaning.
| Model parameters | Description |
| | The recruitment rate into the susceptible compartment | | The effective contact rate | | The effectiveness of social distancing | | The proportion of individuals who use a face mask | | The efficacy of face masks | | The fraction of exposed individuals who show clinical symptoms after the incubation period | | The rate of progression from the exposed compartment to the infectious compartment | | The isolation rate for individuals in the symptomatically infected compartment | | The recovery rate of individuals in the symptomatically infected compartment | | The COVID-19 disease mortality rate for individuals in the infectious compartment | | The isolation rate of asymptomatically infectious individuals | | The recovery rate of asymptomatically infectious individuals | | The recovery rate of individuals in the quarantined compartment | | The COVID-19 disease mortality rate for individuals in the quarantined compartment | | The natural death rate of all individuals |
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