Masking intervention (non-pharmaceutical intervention)

Masking intervention (non-pharmaceutical intervention)

npi_add_masking(model, preval, transmission_reduction)

Arguments

model

epiworldR model.

preval

Prevalence of masking within the population.

transmission_reduction

Reduction in transmission probability due to masking

Value

Returns an object of class epiworld_model, where model is substituted with the model name.

See also

Other interventions: interventions_add_all(), npi_add_school_closure(), pi_add_vaccine()

Examples

library(epiworldR) # for ModelSEIRCONN function
model <- ModelSEIRCONN("COVID-19", n = 1000, prevalence = 0.05,
                       contact_rate = 4, transmission_rate = 0.1,
                       incubation_days = 7, recovery_rate = 0.14)
run(model, ndays = 100, seed = 123)
#> _________________________________________________________________________
#> Running the model...
#> ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| done.
#>  done.
npi_add_masking(model, preval = .8, transmission_reduction = .7)