Article: Pandemic Spread-an Empirical Analysis.
Rambam Maimonides medical journal
2020 Volume 11, Issue 3
Abstract: The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) epidemic started in late 2019, and was upgraded to a pandemic on March 11, 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO). Well established epidemiological models have been used over the last few months in an attempt ... ...
| Abstract | The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) epidemic started in late 2019, and was upgraded to a pandemic on March 11, 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO). Well established epidemiological models have been used over the last few months in an attempt to predict how the virus would spread. The predictions were frightening, and the resulting panic caused many governments to impose lockdowns or other severe restrictions, with lasting effects. This short paper discusses another way of looking at the spread of COVID-19, by focusing on the daily rate of infection, defined as the daily rate of increase in the number of infected persons. It is shown that the daily rate is monotonically decreasing, after a short initial period, in all countries, and that the pattern is similar in all countries. This appears to be a universal phenomenon. Based on these calculations, the April 1, 2020 data for Western Europe were sufficient to predict the beginning of the end of COVID-19 in that region before the end of that month. |
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| Keywords | covid19 |
| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2020-07-31 |
| Publishing country | Israel |
| Document type | Journal Article |
| ZDB-ID | 2573657-7 |
| ISSN | 2076-9172 |
| ISSN | 2076-9172 |
| DOI | 10.5041/RMMJ.10410 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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