Abstract
COVID-19 has changed the world fundamentally since its outbreak in January 2020. Public health experts and administrations around the world suggested and implemented various intervention strategies to slow down the transmission of the virus. To illustrate to the general public how the virus is transmitted and how different intervention strategies can check the transmission, we built an agent-based model (ABM) to simulate the transmission of the virus in the real world and demonstrate how to prevent its spread with public health strategies.
Highlights
As a novel coronavirus, named SARS-CoV-2, reached epidemic proportions around the world, policymakers, public health experts and different levels of administrative organizations recommended various kinds of intervention strategies to slow down the outbreak of the virus
Since an effective public health response relies in part on personal behavior change (Southwell, et al, 2020), and in the case of COVID-19, such changes needed to occur amidst substantial misinformation about the virus (Brennan, et al, 2020), we were intrigued by the problem of providing accessible tools for the public to learn about viral transmission
From the time that SARS-CoV-2 was initially detected and developed into a global pandemic, different public health strategies were implemented around the world, with different levels of population uptake and efficacy
Summary
As a novel coronavirus, named SARS-CoV-2, reached epidemic proportions around the world, policymakers, public health experts and different levels of administrative organizations recommended various kinds of intervention strategies to slow down the outbreak of the virus. This urgent work occurred at a rapid pace and was widely reported, yet the general public did not uniformly enjoy an understanding of the basics of viral transmission in general or the specifics of COVID-19 in particular that would help them make informed decisions about their own actions or to support their community in lowering viral transmission.
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