\documentclass{article} \usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry} \usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,amsthm} %%%% OFFICE USE ONLY %%%% DO NOT EDIT THESE LINES \setlength{\parindent}{0pt} \let\thepage=\relax \pagestyle{headings} \markright{Presentation for the Symposium on BEER\hfill November~\the\year} \newcommand\inst[1]{\textsuperscript{\upshape#1}} %%%% %%%% \begin{document} \begin{flushleft} \LARGE\bfseries %% Insert your title below Modeling the Impact of Hospitalization on the Death Rate of an Ebola Outbreak \large\normalfont\bigskip %% Insert the list of collaborators here using an asterisk (*) to indicate who will be presenting %% You may use the tilde (~) or \mbox{} command to make sure a collaborator's name is not broken across lines %% Feel free to omit the asterisk if only one name is listed Jana Turner\inst{1,*}, Erin Bodine\inst{1} \small\slshape\medskip %% Insert the affiliation(s) of the collaborators here %% If all of the collaborators are from the same institution, feel free to omit the ``\inst{...}'' both here and in the list of collaborator names above \inst{1}Department of Mathematics \& Computer Science, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN 38112 \upshape\ttfamily\smallskip %% Insert an email contact for the presenter here turjv-23@rhodes.edu \end{flushleft} %% The text for the actual abstract follows below here The 2014 Ebola virus outbreak of West Africa was the beginning of a global pandemic, which led to around 29,000 cases and around 11,000 deaths worldwide. Countries with more advanced medical technologies and greater hospital access tended to have fewer cases than those without such access. We used an agent-based model with an underlying social network to simulate an Ebola virus outbreak and quantify the impact of hospitalization on the number of Ebola deaths under the assumption that hospitalization reduced the probability of death due to Ebola. Although the number of cases was relatively unchanged by hospitalization, we did find that hospitalization led to 45.25--60.67\% reduction in Ebola deaths. \end{document}