Mathematical Modeling Help Balance Economy, Health During Pandemic
by Iswarya on
December 28, 2020 at 10:44 AM
PLOS ONE.
This summer, when bars and restaurants and stores began to reopen across the United States, people headed out despite the continuing threat of COVID-19.
As a result, many areas, including the St. Louis region, saw increases in cases in July.
‘Around 300,000 deaths could be averted, depending on how severe isolation measures become during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The group which also includes David Schwartzman, a business economics Ph.D. candidate at Olin Business School, and Uri Goldsztejn, a Ph.D. candidate in biomedical engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering published their findings Dec. 22 in PLOS ONE.