Disease/pathogen specific outbreak function?

[joshwlambert]

Given the epidemiological parameters from {epiparameter} used in {simulist}, it would be possible to implement a set of new functions that can bypass users having to read in and supply epidemiological parameter to the simulist::sim_*() functions.

A function signature such as:

sim_disease_linelist(disease = "Ebola")
sim_pathogen_linelist(pathogen = "Ebola virus")
sim_disease_outbreak(disease = "COVID-19")

These two functions could also be combined into a single function which could have disease and pathogen as arguments:

sim_disease_linelist(pathogen = "SARS-CoV-2")

These functions would be useful when the fine-level details of the parameterisation is not important, but the simulation should mimic a specific outbreak (e.g. teaching, mock outbreak testing). It could additionally use demographic data from another source to be even more detailed:

sim_disease_linelist(pathogen = "SARS-CoV-1", region = "South Korea")

This could supplement the use of datasets such as outbreaks::ebola_sim and provide functions to simulate other similar scenarios.