@booklet {elonkohlberg-dtmotc2021,
	title = {Demystifying the Math of the Coronavirus},
	howpublished = {Discussion Papers},
	volume = {1},
	year = {2021},
	month = {3},
	abstract = {We provide an elementary mathematical description of the spread of the coronavirus. We explain two fundamental relationships: How the rate of growth in new infections is determined by the effective reproductive number ; and how the effective reproductive number is affected by social distancing. By making a key approximation, we are able to formulate these relationships very simply and thereby avoid complicated mathematics. The same approximation leads to an elementary method for estimating the effective reproductive number.},
	url = {/files/dp741.pdf},
	author = {Elon Kohlberg, Abraham Neyman}
}
