AUTHOR=Manjarrez Elias , Olmos Roberto , Cedillo Lilia , Salazar-Ibarguen Humberto A. 

TITLE=Stochastic Filtrate of Essential Workers to Reactivate the World Economy Safely

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Physics

VOLUME=Volume 8 - 2020

YEAR=2020

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2020.00371

DOI=10.3389/fphy.2020.00371

ISSN=2296-424X

ABSTRACT=There is a rapidly emerging risk that essential supply chains could collapse during the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, strategies to protect essential workers regardless of whether they have symptoms should be implemented by governments. We propose a “stochastic filtrate” of such workers, based on periodic real-time-RT-PCR-testing to reduce risky physical interactions with workers infected with SARS-CoV-2. Such a focused strategy, when combined with other preventive measures, could be successfully replicated in many countries to reactivate the world’s economy safely. We present a mathematical framework, conceptual model, and simulation of this stochastic filtrate process to support its viability.