Mathematical Model of Antiviral Immune Response against the COVID-19 Virus

Juan Carlos Chimal-Eguia
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Juan Carlos Chimal-Eguia: Centro de Investigación en Computación del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), Av. Miguel Othon de Mendizabal s/n. Col. La Escalera, Ciudad de México 07738, CP, Mexico

Mathematics, 2021, vol. 9, issue 12, 1-19

Abstract: This work presents a mathematical model to investigate the current outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) worldwide. The model presents the infection dynamics and emphasizes the role of the immune system: both the humoral response as well as the adaptive immune response. We built a mathematical model of delay differential equations describing a simplified view of the mechanism between the COVID-19 virus infection and the immune system. We conduct an analysis of the model exploring different scenarios, and our numerical results indicate that some theoretical immunotherapies are successful in eradicating the COVID-19 virus.

Keywords: mathematical modeling COVID-19 virus; immune response; immunotherapies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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