Table 2.
Description of the parameters of the model {(2.5), (2.6)}.
| Parameters | Description |
|---|---|
| Π | Recruitment rate into the population |
| μ | Natural mortality rate |
| βP1(βP2) | Effective contact rate for pre-symptomatic individuals who do not wear (wear) |
| face masks | |
| βI1(βI2) | Effective contact rate for infectious symptomatic individuals who do not wear (wear) |
| face masks | |
| βA1(βA2) | Effective contact rate for symptomatically-infectious individuals who do not wear (wear) |
| face masks | |
| βH1(βH2) | Effective contact rate for hospitalized individuals who do not wear (wear) |
| face masks | |
| 0 < ϵ0 <1 | Outward protective efficacy of face masks |
| 0 < ϵi <1 | Inward protective efficacy of face masks |
| α12 | Rate at which non-habitual face masks wearers choose to become habitual wearers |
| α21 | Rate at which habitual face masks wearers choose to become non-habitual wearers |
| ξv | Per capita vaccination rate |
| 0 < εv <1 | Protective efficacy of the vaccine |
| σ1(σ2) | Rate at which exposed individuals who do not wear (wear) face masks progress to the |
| corresponding pre-symptomatic infectious stage | |
| σP | Rate at which pre-symptomatic infectious individuals progress to |
| symptomatically-infectious or asymptomatically-infectious stage | |
| r(q) | Proportion of pre-symptomatic infectious individuals who do not wear (wear) face masks |
| that become symptomatically-infectious | |
| ϕ1I(ϕ2I) | Hospitalization rate for symptomatically-infectious individuals who do not wear (wear) |
| face masks | |
| γ1A(γ2A) | Recovery rate for asymptomatically-infectious individuals who do not wear (wear) |
| face masks | |
| γ1I(γ2I) | Recovery rate for symptomatically-infectious individuals who do not wear (wear) |
| face masks | |
| γ1H(γ2H) | Recovery rate for hospitalized individuals who do not wear (wear) face masks |
| δ1I(δ2I) | Disease-induced mortality rate for symptomatically-infectious individuals who do not |
| wear (wear) face masks | |
| δ1H(δ2H) | Disease-induced mortality rate for hospitalized individuals who do not wear (wear) |
| face masks |