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Table 4 Expanded compartments that considered both virus characteristics and interventions

From: Compartmental structures used in modeling COVID-19: a scoping review

Interventions

Expansion compartments

Interpretation

References

Social distancing, wearing masks, washing hands, etc

U

Unsusceptible a(U)

[43]

Quarantined at home/hospitalization

ST

Susceptible persons removed from isolation b(ST)

[44]

I2

Infectious after receiving ineffective treatment (I2)

[45]

Q, D

Home quarantined individuals (Q), diagnosed individuals who are being treated and isolated (D)

[46]

Ia, Is, Qa, Qs, Ru, Ra, Rs

Undetected asymptomatic infectious (Ia), undetected symptomatic infectious (Is), detected and quarantined asymptomatic (Qa), detected and quarantined symptomatic (Qs), undetected recovered asymptomatic (Ru), recovered detected asymptomatic (Ra), recovered detected symptomatic (Rs)

[37]

W1, R1, D1, W2, R2, D2

Hospitalized that never require an intensive care

bed (W1), recovered from non-ICU (R1), deaths from non-ICU (D1), hospitalized that require an intensive care

bed (W2), recovered from ICU (R2), deaths from ICU (D2)

[41]

H1, H2

Confirmed cases who are quarantined at home (H1), confirmed cases who are hospitalized (H2)

[40]

Ip, Ic

Primarily infected (Ip), chronically infected (Ic)c

[47]

Vaccination, testing or contact tracing

AC

Contact traced asymptomatic (AC)

[48]

Eu, Ed

Undetected exposed (Eu), detected exposed (Ed)

[38]

Su, Sv

Unvaccinated susceptible (Su), vaccinated susceptible (Sv)

[42]

  1. aUnsusceptible: a susceptible person can become unsusceptible due to factors such as the use of facemasks, hand washing, and SD (social distance)
  2. bSusceptible persons removed from isolation (ST): isolated susceptible individuals, after a period, are released from isolation and transferred to compartment ST
  3. cPrimarily infected: individuals that remain infectious within the reported duration of the infectious period after the incubation period; chronically infected: individuals that are less infectious but remain infectious and may be diagnosed for a longer duration