Use of Mathematical Approaches for Addressing COVID-19 Pandemic — a Critical Review

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused crises in all fields in which the human race develops. This manuscript reviews various strategies and models developed to deal with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic generated in different areas, such as vaccine logistics, energy consumption, environmental impact, economic impact, and the management of medical resources. Through this review, it can be observed how the proposed strategies can be compatible with each other and can lead to a greater benefit if they are used together. Some of them are designed to obtain short-term benefits (such as vaccine logistics), while the others are considered long-term benefits (such as economic stabilization). The main objective of this work is to show the reader strategies already established to combat the effects produced by the pandemic that can serve as a guide for the development of new and more robust strategies to achieve greater benefits.