Covid Response Simulator // Scenario Planning for Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs)

Background and Motivation

The COVID Response Simulator is a localized, customizable version of the public Covid Act Now (CAN) model. With it, you can take a powerful SEIR epidemiology model and customize it for your county to help plan your response to COVID. The inputs and assumptions in the simulator are modifiable and can be changed to reflect your local realities. In addition, you can project the impact of specific Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) for your county, such as closing schools, restricting business activities, and canceling large events. Based on your inputs, the simulator generates data and graphs illustrating COVID forecasts with and without these NPIs, including estimated case numbers and hospitalizations.

Project Description

We need data scientists to help take this model to the next level and deploy it to hundreds of local government partners across the US.

Intended Impact

Our goal is to save lives.

Internal Stakeholders

Alan Fritzler, Debbie Lai, Gil Rosen + modeling / ENG team

Internal People Available During the Project

Alan Fritzler, Debbie Lai

Project tasks