COVID-19 simulation- An Interactive Tool for Analyses of Phased Reopening Decisions

This is an interactive simulation tool for evaluating the progression of the COVID-19 epidemic from user-input decisions for up to daily changes in social distancing, contact tracing and testing, and universal testing. The simulation is a deterministic compartmental model calibrated to match the epidemic in New York. The model is constructed in Python software, and is setup with a user-friendly interactive interface through the Google Colab for ease of use to the general audience. Thus, the tool can be used by multiple stakeholders for evaluating alternative public health response decisions for the elimination of the COVID-19 epidemic. This version allows evaluations of multiple alternative combinations, flexibility to change units costs, and flexibility in setting analytic time-period.