We review several models for pandemics that plagued the USA and the world in the past decade. Methods of data fitting are reviewed and several types of microscopic and rate equation models are discussed and numerically solved. This paper was written in March of 2021 and newer data is now available; however some of the models and techniques we used to numerically study these models are still of interest. Several appendices discuss in detail these models.
@article{arxiv.2508.15125,
title = {Modeling pandemics},
author = {John F. Dawson and Fred Cooper and Efstathios G. Charalampidis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.15125},
year = {2025}
}