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The discrete-time Kermack–McKendrick model: A versatile and computationally attractive framework for modeling epidemics

The discrete-time Kermack–McKendrick model: A versatile and computationally attractive framework for modeling epidemics

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to numerous mathematical models for the spread of infection, the majority of which are large compartmental models that implicitly constrain the generation-time distribution. On the other hand, the continuous-time Kermack-McKendrick epidemic model of 1927 (KM27) allows an arbitrary generation-time distribution, but it suffers from the …