AUTHOR=Wang Yixing , Xiong Hainan , Liu Sijie , Jung Ara , Stone Trish , Chukoskie Leanne TITLE=Simulation Agent-Based Model to Demonstrate the Transmission of COVID-19 and Effectiveness of Different Public Health Strategies JOURNAL=Frontiers in Computer Science VOLUME=3 YEAR=2021 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/computer-science/articles/10.3389/fcomp.2021.642321 DOI=10.3389/fcomp.2021.642321 ISSN=2624-9898 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.