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. 2020 Aug 27;37:101858. doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2020.101858

Table 2.

Basic epidemic measures from the simulation with default model parameterization.

Young (Age < 65)
(susceptible No. = 640,000)
Old (Age ≥ 65)
(susceptible No. = 160,000)
Total population (susceptible No. = 800,000)
Days to epidemic peak (duration till =<5 cases) 76 (172) 66 (122) 73 (172)
Susceptible at epidemic peak No. (% total) 347,117 (43.4%) 64,398 (40.2% 427,443 (53.4%)
Maximum quarantined No. (% susceptible) 3156 (1.8%) 132 (1.5%) 3210 (1.8%)
Maximum new cases 18,805 (5.4%) 7735 (12.0%) 23,193 (5.4%)
 Symptomatic No. (incidence %) 11,145 (3.2%) 4614 (7.2%) 13,742 (3.2%)
 Asymptomatic No. (incidence %) 7660 (2.2%) 3121 (4.8%) 9451 (2.2%)
Maximum new hospitalizations
No. (%among symptomatic)
732 (6.6%) 1247 (27.0%) 1791 (13.0%)
Maximum new deaths
No. (%among symptomatic) (%among hospitalized)
33 (0.3%) (4.5%) 161 (3.5%) (12.9%) 191 (1.4%) (10.7%)



Total cases within 240 days No (incidence %) 553,851 (86.5%) 158,010 (98.8%) 711,861 (89.0%)
 Symptomatic No. (incidence %) 331,168 (51.7%) 94,354 (59.0%) 425,522 (53.2%)
 Asymptomatic No. (incidence %) 222,683 (34.8%) 63,656 (39.8%) 286,339 (35.8%)
Total hospitalizations
No. (% among symptomatic)
25,707 (7.8%) 34,408 (36.5%) 60,115 (14.1%)
Total deaths
No. (%among symptomatic) (%among hospitalized)
1285 (0.4%) (5.0%) 6998 (7.4%) (20.3%) 8283 (1.9%) (13.8%)

Note: Parameters for the default model are listed in the supplemental table 1. Briefly, the population size is 1 million residents, 20% percent of elderly, 20% prior infection, importing young cases at 1 per two days for 20 days (10 cases), 40% mild/asymptomatic cases among unquarantined susceptible, 10 contacts for young people, 7 contacts for elderly people, and 3 contacts between young and elderly people. The peak self-quarantined is 2% of the susceptible population but changes with the prevalence of disease. The hospitalization rate is 5% for young, and 30% for old symptomatic cases, respectively. The mortality rate is 5% for hospitalized young people and 20% for hospitalized elderly. There are no prior symptomatic or asymptomatic cases or quarantined people in the total population. The modeling duration is 240 days.