Teaching undergraduate physical chemistry lab with kinetic analysis of COVID-19 in the United States.

ABSTRACT: A physical chemistry lab for undergraduate students described in this report is about applying kinetic models to analyze the spread of COVID-19 in the United States and obtain the reproduction numbers. The susceptible-infectious-recovery (SIR) model and the SIR-vaccinated (SIRV) model are explained to the students and are used to analyze the COVID-19 spread data from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The basic reproduction number R ₀ and the real-time reproduction number R _t of COVID-19 are extracted by fitting the data with the models, which explains the spreading kinetics and provides a prediction of the spreading trend in a given state. The procedure outlined here shows the differences between the SIR model and the SIRV model. The

SUBMITTER: Smith DK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9799982 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature