A team of national defense scientists at Los
Alamos National Laboratory that studies
contagions with award-winning accuracy has
developed its own U.S. forecast for the spread of
the coronavirus.
It’s one model that states are utilizing as
they consider the duration of directives on
social distancing and restrictions on business
and President Trump steps up pressure to
follow his road map to gradually reopening a
crippled economy.
With support from the U.S. Energy Department,
the Los Alamos model builds upon a decade
of past experience in forecasting contagions,
including the seasonal flu, the Ebola virus and
mosquito-borne Chikungunya.