Predicting COVID-19 Dynamics Using SEIR-PADC Model
There are a number of derivates of SIR type models developed in mathematics community with 5 to 8 ordinary differential equations to include detailed mechanisms. These models have included exposed, deceased, super-spreader, symptomatic and asymptomatic infected and hospitalized populations; but are mathematically complex and cumbersome. These methods rarely used actual clinical data in details and usually fitted with one or maximum two major clinical data. In this paper, we introduce SEIR-PADC model to include exposed, deceased, super-spreader and critical populations and divide infected population to symptomatic and asymptomatic. SEIR-PADC model is a set of 8 ordinary differential equations with 12 unknown coefficients. Along with, we used an optimization algorithm in MATLAB to find best fit coefficients to 5 set of COVID-19 data in Kuwait. Our focus is to track trends of COVID-19 in coming days. Initial conditions for 8 populations and initial guess values for 12 unknown coefficients are found in a way to best fit COVID-19 data. We used 136 days of COVID-19 data in Kuwait and obtained solutions to cumulative populations rather than daily population. Predictions for 5 different population of COVID-19 in Kuwait using SEIR-PADC model are promising and are discussed here.