Problem are about chikungunya, a disease that arrived in the Americas in 2013 and spread rapidly in
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Problem are about chikungunya, a disease that arrived in the Americas in 2013 and spread rapidly in 2014. While seldom fatal, the disease causes debilitating joint pain and a high fever. In August 2014, a public challenge was issued to predict the number of cases in each of the affected countries. The winners, Joceline Lega and Heidi Brown, used a logistic model to make their predictions. Let N be the total number of cases of chikungunya in a country by week t, where t is measured since the first cases were recorded in that country. The progress of the disease in three Caribbean countries is represented by the logistic functions:
By the time the outbreak was over, which of these three countries had had the largest number of cases of chikungunya? How many cases was that?
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Applied Calculus
ISBN: 9781119275565
6th Edition
Authors: Deborah Hughes Hallett, Patti Frazer Lock, Andrew M. Gleason, Daniel E. Flath, Sheldon P. Gordon, David O. Lomen, David Lovelock, William G. McCallum, Brad G. Osgood, Andrew Pasquale