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ImportPressure

The ImportPressure intervention class extends the ImportCases outbreak event. Rather than importing a deterministic number of cases on a scheduled day, ImportPressure applies a set of per-day rates of importation of infected individuals, over a corresponding set of durations. ImportPressure inherits from Outbreak; the Antigen and Genome parameters are defined as they are for all Outbreak events.

Warning

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Be careful when configuring import pressure in multi-node simulations.
**Daily_Import_Pressures**  defines a rate of per-day importation for *each* node that the
intervention is distributed to. In a 10 node simulation with  **Daily_Import_Pressures** = [0.1,
5.0], the total importation rate summed over all nodes will be 1/day and 50/day during the two
time periods. You must divide the per-day importation rates by the number of
nodes.

Note

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Parameters are case-sensitive. For Boolean parameters, set to 1 for true or 0 for false.
Minimum, maximum, or default values of "NA" indicate that those values are not applicable for
that parameter.

EMOD does not use true defaults; that is, if the dependency relationships indicate that a 
parameter is required, you must supply a value for it. However, many of the tools used to work 
with EMOD will use the default values provided below.

JSON format does not permit comments, but you can add "dummy" parameters to add contextual
information to your files. Any keys that are not EMOD parameter names will be ignored by the
model.

The table below describes all possible parameters with which this class can be configured. The JSON example that follows shows one potential configuration.

Parameter Example Description Type Min Max Default
Daily_Import_Pressures link The rate of per-day importation for each node that the intervention is distributed to. array of floats 0 3.40282e+38 0
Durations link The durations over which to apply import pressure. array of integers 0 2.14748e+09 1
Genome link The genome ID (Genome) of the outbreak infection. Together with the clade ID (Clade) they are a unitary object representing a strain of infection, which allows for differentiation among infections. Values for Genome may range from -1 to 2 Log2_Number_of_Genomes_per_Clade-1 integer 0 1.67772e+07 0
Import_Age link The age (in days) of infected import cases. float 0 43800 365
Incubation_Period_Override link The incubation period, in days, that infected individuals will go through before becoming infectious. This value overrides the incubation period set in the configuration file. Set to -1 to honor the configuration parameter settings. integer -1 2.14748e+09 -1
Number_Cases_Per_Node link The number of new cases of Outbreak to import (per node).
.. note::
This will increase the population and there is no control over demographics of these individuals.
integer 0 2.14748e+09 1

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