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Endemic · Epidemic · Pandemic

Three words say how much disease is around and how far it has spread. The prefixes give it away. En-demic means always in a population. Epi-demic means above the usual level. Pan-demic means across all the world. Build a 24-week curve and let the model name the pattern for you.

Cases per week, one region24 weeks

Weekly case counts against the baseline and the threshold
Move the sliders and watch the bars cross the dotted threshold.

Where it has spreadregions affected

World regions reached by the outbreak
Regions
1 of 8
Continents
1
Cases, all regions
0
Endemicsteady and expected

Build the curveevery number comes from the formula

14
0
2.5
0
1
Peak week
0
Threshold
0
Weeks above
0

What the model is readingthe rules it follows