Imperial College have published their COVID-19 modelling code on GitHub. Their modelling has apparently been used in forming UK policy. … [Read more...]
Simulations of disease spread
The Washington Post has some simple visual simulations that show how strategies such as quarantining and social distancing can impact the spread of an infectious disease. … [Read more...]
COVID-19 dashboard
Effective COVID-19 dashboard showing UK cases---from Public Health England. … [Read more...]
COVID-19 epidemiology with R
Interesting, and timely, article on using R to analyse COVID-19 incidence data collated by John Hopkins University. It makes use of two epidemiology packages. earlyR for estimation of infectiousness, as measured by the reproduction number (R), in the early stages of an outbreak. EpiEstim for estimating the time varying instantaneous reproduction number during epidemics These packages, and … [Read more...]