In this project you will solve model equations describing the time-evolution of healthy and infected people in connected populations. Different strategies for minimizing effects of a disease, such as vaccination, should be studied. Your job is:
- choose your “favorite” disease and favorite cities
- figure out, using “appropriate” sources, realistic parameters for that disease.
- include realistic parameters for traveling dynamics between populations.
- solve the appropriate rate equations numerically
- investigate the effect of vaccination or quarantine on disease spreading patterns.
Realistic Parameters:
α: 0.33 (for all 3 cities)
New York: β: 0.60 N: 19.84 million I₀: 1984
California: β: 0.53 N: 39.14 million I₀: 3914
Texas: β: 0.47 N: 30.03 million I₀: 3003
324,153 people in the US gets vaccinated each day 324153/333,300,00 = 0.00097
gamma= 0.00097