A self-consistent system of differential logistic equations has been constructed to describe the spread of an epidemic with account for the demography and geography of a country. An original method of numerical assessment of the number of unregistered cases in the country has been proposed.
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 94, No. 1, pp. 3–8, January–February, 2021.
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Grinchuk, P.S., Fisenko, S.P. Physical Kinetics and Simulation of the Spread of an Epidemic. J Eng Phys Thermophy 94, 1–5 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10891-021-02267-z
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