Beare, Brendan K.; Akira Toda, Alexis - University of California, San Diego / Department of … - 2020
The first confirmed case of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the US was reported on January 21, 2020. By the end … whether a simple model of the growth of COVID-19 cases involving Gibrat's law can explain the emergence of this power law. The … COVID-19 had been present within each county. Thus calibrated, the model generates a power law with Pareto exponent nearly …