Why “Covid-Tracking Apps” will probably not work
I previously wrote about covid tracking apps and that what a “tracking app” is varies tremendously by country. Please read that first. There is another issue that crops up –…
Apple-Google Bluetooth “contact tracing app” depends on widespread adoption to be useful
The biggest challenge for these apps going forward is adoption. The more phones that opt-in to the system, the more successfully it can detect how the virus spreads. Apple and…
Experts criticize ICL’s Ferguson’s Covid SIM model as garbage
Those of us who have seen Neil Ferguson’s ICL Covid sim model have the same views as this computational epidemiologist: As Ferguson himself admits, the code was written 13 years…
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Covid tracking apps summarized
When people mention “Covid tracking apps” it would be useful to first define what is meant by “Covid tracking app”. There are many approaches in use and many that are…
Hilarious video about our pandemic planning and response
https://youtu.be/aWl7kQZHZE0
ICL Covid-simulation source code
I will not comment on Covid-19 and only make a few comments on the publicly available source code. This is not a comment about whether models should be used –…