A call to honesty in pandemic modeling(medium.com)
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A call to honesty in pandemic modeling
https://medium.com/@wpegden/a-call-to-honesty-in-pandemic-modeling-5c156686a64b
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If in four months, we have readily-available fast tests and plentiful masks, it is possible to end the heavy-handed mitigations and follow the model of the East Asian countries that have already brought the disease under control.
https://youtu.be/gAk7aX5hksU
This interview was quite helpful.
Thanks for sharing
Right now we're stuck with academics creating models that attempt to predict outcomes.
We need pandemic models that give us insight into how we can gain leverage over those outcomes.
That means assumptions, variables, long term forecasts, and short term checkpoints for testing and recalibrating the assumptions.
Many of the decision makers and influencers of the world are still in sport mode.
Which is why this is probably going to look a lot more like war.