NICOV : a model to analyse impact of nutritional status and immunity on COVID-19

Abstract

A few months back there was no medication and vaccine for COVID-19. Yet, most of the infected people got recovered. A very small portion of the infected people could not recover. A lion’s share of the fatal cases were the patients suffering from some kind of chronic critical diseases. Due to that, their nutritional status and immunity were not normal. In this study, we have proposed a model called NICOV (Nutritional status, Immunity and COVID) that establishes the relationship among nutritional status, immunity, and COVID-19. This model formulates the relations considering all possible states of nutritional status and immunity of the body. We have numerically simulated the model for four different sets of values and found that susceptible, infected, and recovered cases of COVID-19 are significantly related to different states of nutritional status and immunity. It is also evident from numerical simulation that the effect of nutritional status and immunity varies with variation of other parameters associated with the formulation of the model. This model can help the concerned in decision making for mitigation of the losses that arise due to COVID-19-like situations. Graphical Abstract: [Figure not available: see fulltext.]