On the Estimation of Some Relevant Parameters in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Abstract This paper gives simple rules to calculate the transmission rate and some other parameters in COVID- 19 from recorded data on the infection, recovery and death through several SIR-based epidemic models. In particular, it is emphasized how the transmission rate is highly dependent on the quarantine or confinement interventions. The proposed rules estimate the relevant time-derivative of some of the subpopulations of the model by using the standard known discretization rules.