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In this section we present some basic and advanced analysis of age-structured epidemic models. In the next subsection, we discuss well posedness.
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The authors thank Suzanne Lenhart for valuable comments and Eric Numfor and Necibe Tuncer for help with the code.
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In this appendix we include the MATLAB code that executes the numerical method in the section.
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Li, XZ., Yang, J., Martcheva, M. (2020). Age-Structured Epidemic Models. In: Age Structured Epidemic Modeling. Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, vol 52. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42496-1_2
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