Physical distancing measures, including school closures, have been enacted globally to reduce close contacts between infectious and susceptible individuals and mitigate the transmission of the Severe Acute Respiratory Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The San Francisco Bay Area (California) was the first region in the United States to adopt physical distancing measures […]
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As of Oct. 2020, there are more than 8,000 peer-reviewed and published transmission models on the current COVID-19 epidemic, based on recent search result in the NIH NCBI LitCovid online database. The predominant modeling approach is to construct a compartmental SEIR-type model, fit the published case series to the model, […]
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This fall, SARS-CoV-2 hospitalizations in the United States have been growing rapidly, and in Colorado, where our team has been modeling the course of SARS-CoV-2 for state policy-makers, hospitalizations have now greatly exceeded the “first wave” of hospitalizations in the state. It is unclear to what extent this growth is […]
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Several MIDAS members are presenting at this symposium hosted by the Emory Theory and Modeling of Living Systems (TMLS) initiative!
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