Hello friends,How did the UK make the decision to go into lockdown?On this week's podcast, I spoke to Dr James Hay — a computational epidemiologist at Harvard's School of Public Health. We spoke about how Imperial and Oxford's COVID-19 modelling works, and what its strengths and limitations are. It will be interesting if you want a deep dive into epidemiological modelling. Some interesting points:Imperial's modelling works like a giant game of Sims. Every person in the country is represented in the modelThe models actually have quite a lot of good data to work withWhen reading cross-country comparisons, make sure you know how each country is defining a case/infection. Clinical findings? CT? Serology? Changes in definition can result in spikes in cases.Available on Apple, Spotify and everywhere else.
COVID-19 Modelling
COVID-19 Modelling
COVID-19 Modelling
Hello friends,How did the UK make the decision to go into lockdown?On this week's podcast, I spoke to Dr James Hay — a computational epidemiologist at Harvard's School of Public Health. We spoke about how Imperial and Oxford's COVID-19 modelling works, and what its strengths and limitations are. It will be interesting if you want a deep dive into epidemiological modelling. Some interesting points:Imperial's modelling works like a giant game of Sims. Every person in the country is represented in the modelThe models actually have quite a lot of good data to work withWhen reading cross-country comparisons, make sure you know how each country is defining a case/infection. Clinical findings? CT? Serology? Changes in definition can result in spikes in cases.Available on Apple, Spotify and everywhere else.