Potentials of constrained sliding mode control as an intervention guide to manage COVID19 spread

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    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board Statementnot detected.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    No key resources detected.


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    As can be seen, when the infectious level complies with the imposed limitation (both absolute value and approach speed), the restriction level begins to increase to avoid exceeding the imposed limit (horizontal dashed line in the infectious subplot). When this condition ceases to be fulfilled (due to the evolution of the disease) the restriction level begins to decrease until the level without restriction is recovered again. The main difference between the proposal behavior and the constant restriction levels is the non-saturation of the health system, which is only achieved for a constant restriction level above 50 %. Not exceeding the health system capacity brings with it the most important result of not increasing the mortality rate. As can be appreciated from Fig. 3, the evolution of the closed-loop system for the case with τ =15 days has a similar duration to the case of 40% constant restriction (dashed orange lines). The main difference is the “time distribution” of infectious agents that avoids surpassing the health system capacity. This is achieved by keeping the system unrestricted for a longer time period, but requiring a deeper restriction peak. To make a comparison, the 40 % constant restriction case has an approximate duration of 400 days, while for the closed-loop system there exist restrictions during only 161 days. 101 of these days correspond to a restriction level lower than 40 %, whilst the remaining days the restriction is harder reaching a peak of 58 % fo...

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