@booklet {24527,
	title = {Demystifying the Math of the Coronavirus},
	year = {Working Paper},
	abstract = {We provide an elementary mathematical description of the spread of the coronavirus. We explain two\&nbsp;fundamental relationships: How the rate of growth in new infections is determined by the {\textquotedblleft}effective reproductive\&nbsp;number{\textquotedblright}; and how the effective reproductive number is affected by social distancing. By making a key\&nbsp;approximation, we are able to formulate these relationships very simply and thereby avoid complicated\&nbsp;mathematics. The same approximation leads to an elementary method for estimating the effective eproductivenumber.},
	author = {Elon Kohlberg and Abraham Neyman}
}
