Covasim: An agent-based model of COVID-19 dynamics and interventions.

The COVID-19 pandemic has created an urgent need for models that can project epidemic trends, explore intervention scenarios, and estimate resource needs. Here we describe the methodology of Covasim (COVID-19 Agent-based Simulator), an open-source model developed to help address these questions. Cov...

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Main Authors: Cliff C Kerr, Robyn M Stuart, Dina Mistry, Romesh G Abeysuriya, Katherine Rosenfeld, Gregory R Hart, Rafael C Núñez, Jamie A Cohen, Prashanth Selvaraj, Brittany Hagedorn, Lauren George, Michał Jastrzębski, Amanda S Izzo, Greer Fowler, Anna Palmer, Dominic Delport, Nick Scott, Sherrie L Kelly, Caroline S Bennette, Bradley G Wagner, Stewart T Chang, Assaf P Oron, Edward A Wenger, Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths, Michael Famulare, Daniel J Klein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-07-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009149