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Modeling and Sensitivity Analysis of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Outbreak Prediction
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  • Ahmad Sedaghat,
  • Seyed Amir Abbas Oloomi,
  • Mahdi Ashtian Malayer,
  • Amir Mosavi
Ahmad Sedaghat
School of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Australian College of Kuwait
Seyed Amir Abbas Oloomi
Mahdi Ashtian Malayer
Amir Mosavi

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Abstract

The susceptible-infectious-recovered-deceased (SIRD) model is an essential model for outbreak prediction. This paper evaluates the performance of the SIRD model for the outbreak of COVID-19 in Kuwait, which initiated on 24 February 2020 by five patients in Kuwait. This paper investigates the sensitivity of the SIRD model for the development of COVID-19 in Kuwait based on the duration of the progressed days of data. For Kuwait, we have fitted the SIRD model to COVID-19 data for 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, and 116 days of data and assessed the sensitivity of the model with the number of days of data. The parameters of the SIRD model are obtained using an optimization algorithm (lsqcurvefit) in MATLAB. The total population of 50,000 is equally applied for all Kuwait time intervals. Results of the SIRD model indicate that after 40 days, the peak infectious day can be adequately predicted. Although error percentage from sensitivity analysis suggests that different exposed population sizes are not correctly predicted. SIRD type models are too simple to robustly capture all features of COVID-19, and more precise methods are needed to tackle the correct trends of a pandemic.