Two evil men (Bob and Cata from LA) invented a new virus called COVID-22 and released it in Vieux Hull, where people have very suspicious and mostly unhygienic habits. But Super Angie is there to protect the citizens by teaching better hygiene habits, enforcing social distancing measures, and distributing vaccines.
The population can be divided into four categories using the NIRD model:
- N: proportion of non-infected people in k weeks
- I: proportion of infected people in k weeks
- R: proportion of recovered (or immune) people in k weeks
- D: proportion of dead people in k weeks
Thus, initially, nobody is infected.
According to data, it is estimated that:
- 4% of the non-infected people get infected the week after
- 20% of the non-infected people will receive the vaccine (thus they become immune/recovered) the week after
- 60% of the infected people recover the week after
- 5% of the infected people die the week after
The recovered stay recovered (can't be infected again) and the dead stay dead (no zombies).
a) Find the Markov matrix M such that M = [N, I, R, D] and give the initial condition.
b) What will be the percentage of people dead in 3 weeks?