What?

This is a dynamic simulator built to help citizens understand hospital resource exhaustion. It illustrates that we must take quarantine seriously or our negligence will result in people dying due to a lack of hospital resources.

With the default settings, this simulator shows that if we continue our alarming rate of cases growing day over day, we'll have two million coronavirus patients requiring hospitalization one month from now. That's a big problem, because we only have one million hospital beds in the United States - total.

The current death rate from the virus appears to be 12% if you look at current survival to death ratio. 12% of two million patients with corona dying would be 240,000 deaths. BUT, if one million patients needing ventilators can't get into overcrowded hospitals, we might have 500,000 additional deaths or maybe even all 1,000,000, and as the simulator shows - it gets worse from there.

However, if we simply adjust our per-day infection growth rate down to 10% from the current trend of 24%+, we buy ourselves time. At a 10% growth rate, our hospital beds would not be exhausted until 3 months from now. If we socially distance ourselves, we will reduce the number of new cases and buy ourselves time.

We MUST take quarantine seriously. Now is not the time to refute the news and discard this as 'just the flu'. It is not the common flu. Coronavirus has a death rate at least ten times higher than the common flu, and, if we can't flatten the curve and control the number of people needing hospitalization, many people will die who don't need to.

Every day that we spend in quarantine buys our nation time to manufacture additional ventilators and prepare more hospital beds that many of us might need to beat this.

The default settings in the simulator are very crudely estimated right now, but that will be improved (with sources provided) soon.

For now, by default, we assume 1 million beds are available (per the CDC) in United States hospitals right now. Other settings are currently configured for a very loose interpretation of today's (March 24) stats in the united states: about 42,164 confirmed cases, up 24.4% (~ 10,000) from yesterday; a death rate of about 12%, an estimate of 7.8% of confirmed cases resulting in hospitalization, and a very conservative estimate of hospitalizations lasting for 3 days.

To clarify, using the tool, we are estimating that 10% of infections are being tested by default and 100% of those cases are resulting in hospitalization, which effectively is equivalent to 10% of the infections resulting in hospitalization.

Note: This is a beta version of the simulator. All of the code is on github. Code review me, PLEASE! If you find a bug, please email me!