new coronavirus outbreak. lessons learned from the severe acute respiratory syndrome epidemic. | system dynamics approach offers great potential for addressing how intervention policies can affect the spread of emerging infectious diseases in complex and highly networked systems. here, we develop a model that explains the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (sars-cov) epidemic that occurred in hong kong in 2003. the dynamic model developed with system dynamics methodology included 23 variables (five states, four flows, eight auxiliary variables, six parameters), five differential ... | 2015 | 25591619 |