Persistent Covid places the greatest burden on the healthcare system due to its longer symptomatic period.

Epidemic dynamics for an uncontrolled pandemic measured by the number of symptomatic individuals per day for the three 'virtual' viruses with no symptomatic individuals isolating.

Results from S-I-R model 5.1 based on different values for the onset and duration of symptoms; and incubation infectivity. The model does not include any control policies.
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