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Simulates the spread of Coronavirus through the United States
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Change containment effects to force a sigmoid-shaped growth pattern #4

Open scotthmccoy opened 4 years ago

scotthmccoy commented 4 years ago

https://towardsdatascience.com/derivative-of-the-sigmoid-function-536880cf918e

How to approach this? Should the R0 be the derivative of the sigmoid?

scotthmccoy commented 4 years ago

Better writeup of R0: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pgazpv/meet-r-nought-the-magic-number-that-spreads-infectious-diseases

SIR model: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nzed5k/how-subtle-differences-in-a-population-can-lead-to-horrific-epidemics