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MicroCOVID Project, Micromorts but for Covid

16 pointsby owenshen24over 4 years ago

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atemerevover 4 years ago
Epidemic modeler here. Do you consider the cases who carry the disease but not registered? (usually asymptomatic/mild symptomatic). Do you account e.g. for the delay between getting infected and being infective? Epidemic modeling is hard, risk estimation is harder, and combining it properly requires a lot of care.
alpineidyll3over 4 years ago
Weird title, I didn&#x27;t get quoted my micromorts! I think that projects like this owe people a slight debt of education.<p>They should at least list the odds of all conditional outcomes in a way consistent with total probability. For example instead of quoting a probability of contracting covid which the authors can&#x27;t acertain they should quote the probability of being false negative&#x2F;positive etc.