Fitting Birth and Death Queuing Models using Maximum Likelihood Estimation with Application to COVID-19 Pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed facts about deficiencies in health resource planning of some countries having relatively high case count and death toll. The virus has undergone an observed increase of cases that led to a global pandemic. Many authors have developed different models for predicting or observing the current trend of COVID-19 pandemic.