This is a compartmental model simulation code for generic respiratory virus diseases.
Background
MetaRVM is an open-source R package for modeling the spread of infectious diseases in subpopulations, which can be flexibly defined by geography, demographics, or other stratifications. It is designed to support real-time public health decision-making. MetaRVM is a metapopulation model, which extends the classic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) framework by propagating infection across interacting subpopulations (e.g., age groups, neighborhoods), whose interactions are governed by realistic mixing patterns.
The MetaRVM model builds upon the SEIR framework by introducing additional compartments to capture more detailed dynamics of disease progression, while allowing for heterogeneous mixing among different demographic stratum. These generalizations allow the model to account for factors such as vaccinations, hospitalizations, and fatalities.
For more details, please refer to the paper: Developing and deploying a use-inspired metapopulation modeling framework for detailed tracking of stratified health outcomes
Installation
You can install the development version of MetaRVM from GitHub with:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("NSF-RESUME/MetaRVM")