Epidemic Calculator

peter.suber's bookmarks 2020-03-21

Summary:

"At the time of writing, the coronavirus disease of 2019 remains a global health crisis of grave and uncertain magnitude. To the non-expert (such as myself), contextualizing the numbers, forecasts and epidemiological parameters described in the media and literature can be challenging. I created this calculator as an attempt to address this gap in understanding.

This calculator implements a classical infectious disease model — SEIR (Susceptible → Exposed → Infected → Removed), an idealized model of spread still used in frontlines of research...."

Link:

http://gabgoh.github.io/COVID/index.html

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Tags:

oa.new oa.tools oa.medicine oa.floss oa.humanitarian oa.dynamic oa.visualizations

Date tagged:

03/21/2020, 09:44

Date published:

03/21/2020, 05:45