epiverse-trace / epidemics

A library of published compartmental epidemic models, and classes to represent demographic structure, non-pharmaceutical interventions, and vaccination regimes, to compose epidemic scenarios.
https://epiverse-trace.github.io/epidemics/
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Allow changes in population sizes #154

Closed pratikunterwegs closed 6 months ago

pratikunterwegs commented 6 months ago

This feature request issue is (initially) trageted at the diphtheria model focussed on humanitarian camps; see #146. This feature follows feedback from partners at MSF.

Use case: camps can see large changes in population size due to various factors, which could substantially impact infection dynamics. This could be due to increases, providing a large population of susceptibles, or due to decreases, by evacuating susceptibles. This requires a mechanism that allows the model to include changes in the initial conditions of population size.

This mechanism should be in the form of an 'intervention' on population sizes (initially, the $S$ compartment of the initial conditions matrix), and should be (initially) restricted to the diphtheria model.