Title: Using an SIR Model to find the transmission rate of COVID-19
Abstract: An examination of how an SIR model can be used to estimate the transmission rate of a disease from reported deaths, infection fatality rate, and average duration of the infectious period, and an examination of how this estimated transmission rate has changed over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially as related to the use of non-pharmaceutical interventions such as lockdowns.
Advisor: Jason Rose