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. 2024 Feb 1;86(3):27. doi: 10.1007/s11538-023-01249-x

Table 1.

Parameter descriptions for both the community and workplace models

Parameter Value Description
β 0–2.5 days-1 Workplace transmission
β¯ 0–1.5 days-1 Mean workplace transmission rate when assuming heterogeneity in infectiousness
βg 0.5–0.9 days-1 Within-group transmission rate
1/l 5.2 days Mean latency period
r 1/6 days-1 Recovery rate
w 1/10 days-1 Recovery rate for hospitalised individuals
h 1/6 days-1 Hospitalisation rate
d 1/10 days-1 Death rate
π 0.48–1.12 days-1 Infection rate in the community
κ 0.016 Relative transmission in the community after NPIs
ν 0.3 Slope of the sigmoid function
τ 50 Midpoint of transmission reduction
NC 1000000 Community population size
NW 20–1000 Workplace population size
ωρ 0–3 Gamma rate, infectiousness
kρ 0–3 Gamma shape, infectiousness
ωz 0–3 Gamma rate, susceptibility
kz 0–3 Gamma shape, susceptibility
ϵ1 0.025 Probability of being hospitalised
ϵ2 0.37 Probability of death
ϵ3 0.3 Probability of being symptomatic