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Danascot

(4,690 posts)
Fri May 8, 2020, 02:02 PM May 2020

Mathmatical modeling of Covid-19

and public policy recommendations based on them. Among other things he says a community or nation can eliminate the spread in 5 weeks of strict control measures. In most of the blue states we've been in quarantine for 8 weeks and it's far from over.

This isn't just retrospective. With re-openings happening around the nation the same principles apply.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2020/05/07/this-professor-says-weve-been-looking-at-the-coronavirus-data-wrong/#7c944c913402


Eliminating COVID-19: A community-based analysis

https://necsi.edu/eliminating-covid-19-a-community-based-analysis



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Note how much better Slovenia has handled the virus than the US or UK. Maybe it should have been genius Melania heading up the task force.




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