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The point of this simulation game is to explore how infections and deaths might be affected by short term efforts to reduce the daily transmission rates of a virus by social distancing and lockdown.

This simulation is based on the SIR model. The compartments used are Susceptible, Exposed, Infected, Recovering, and Recovered. The Recovering compartment is further broken down into three sub-compartments: Non-Hospitalized, Hospitalized, and Over Capacity. Higher death rates are applied to Over Capacity than Hospitalized and no death rates are applied to Non-Hospitalized.

The parameters used in this simulation can be adjusted using the editor here.



Disclaimer: This is a simulation game and this is not trying to predict COVID-19. We are not epidemiologists and this should not be used to predict behavior of an actual virus.