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. 2020 Sep 18;2020(1):502. doi: 10.1186/s13662-020-02964-8

Table 2.

Description of the model parameters

Parameters Description
η Mortality rate in every compartment assumed to be equal to the rate of newborn in the population [9]
β Rate at which the cross-immune population becomes susceptible again
ξ Contact/transmission rate
σ The average reinfection probability of a cross-immune individual
α Recovery rate of the infected population
γ Rate at which the recovered population becomes the cross-immune population and moves from total to partial immunity