With most of Ohio’s businesses allowed to open up, experts who’ve worked with the state on the modeling it used to create its COVID-19 policies are evaluating their predictions for what’s ahead.
Early modeling for COVID-19 in Ohio showed a peak of 62,000 cases per day
Dr. Jim Simon runs predictive modeling for COVID-19 at the Cleveland Clinic, which has worked with the state on its projections on the spread of the virus.
And he said in an interview for "The State of Ohio", for weeks people have been getting tired of what he calls the strenuous lifestyle of social distancing.
“We’ve been tracking cell phone mobility data as well as ODOT traffic volumes, and those hit their bottom in late March/early April and then they started drifting back up, long before the governor said it’s ok to go to back to work," Simon said.
But Simon said while researchers are learning more about it, the coronavirus is just as contagious and deadly as it was when the shutdowns started three months ago.
