COVID-19 Calculator

[Orome]

My love for calculators (and slide rules!) is to blame for my lifelong fascination with computation, and the varied career path that has taken me on, much of which can be measured by the calculators and computers encountered along the way, from JOSS, to a high school IBM 5100, to jobs as a software architect and digital executive.

Sadly, today, that yardstick finds me here.

(Just to be clear: I didn't make this.)

[Geoff Quickfall]

Very interesting responses to capture and treatment variables. Nicely done and appreciate the citations. Thanks for posting.

[Dan B]

Thank you! The layout is well thought out and your graph is clear and understandable. Great job!

[Pjwum]

Tremendous work, thanks for posting this!

I guess many of us are running their own individual modelings. One challenge is to derive an estimate for the dark figure of infected persons. This is a hugely varying factor between countries depending on when testing started, how intense, transportation and evaluation times, etc. It can roughly be calculated using the more reliable mortality numbers and parameters like mortality rate (latest is 1.4% according to Leung, Wu, Leung et al.) and duration of illness.
Either way, it is horrifying.

[Csaba Tizedes]

(03-24-2020 02:00 PM)Pjwum Wrote:  One challenge is to derive an estimate for the dark figure of infected persons.

One possible method:

(03-24-2020 02:00 PM)Pjwum Wrote:  Either way, it is horrifying.

As I wrote in many forums, there was a SARS epidemic and the big medicine manufacturers do nothing to develop the vaccine. There are lots of papers and books about this, like this book: Coronavirus Replication and Reverse Genetics.
Just read the back cover text: "This book contains information on virus genome structure, mechanism of replication and transcription, and the development of tools that make possible reverse genetic studies to understand virus-host interactions and the molecular basis of virus pathogenesis. The book also provides essential information for the development of classical and recombinant vaccines to control coronavirus infections."

This book published in 2005.

Why these big companies do nothing during the last 15 years? Because the profit was too small. That's it. Maybe during these days, this will be more profitable.

Cs.

[Albert Chan]

Hi, Csaba Tizedes

I had read the book, "The Wisdom of Crowds", but I am not convinced.
It is likely the author already believed in wisdom of crowds, before citing examples.

At the end of 3Blue1Brown video:

Quote:If people are sufficiently worried, then there is a lot less to worry about.
But, if no one is worried, that's when you should worry

[Csaba Tizedes]

And which epidemics model describes better the COVID-19? MODELS (Wiki)

The "Susceptible" is my problem I don't understand exactly what is that. "S" is the full population who are ready to ill?!?

Cs.

[compsystems]

[Pjwum]

(03-25-2020 07:49 AM)Csaba Tizedes Wrote:  The "Susceptible" is my problem I don't understand exactly what is that.

Susceptible = number of people who are not immune = entire population - infected - recovered - dead.

[SlideRule]

Additional reference material, sans-commentary:

Coronaviruses - Methods and Protocols
Springer New York Heidelberg Dordrecht London
© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015
Methods in Molecular Biology
ISBN 978-1-4939-2437-0 ISBN 978-1-4939-2438-7 (eBook)

Molecular Biology of the SARS-Coronavirus
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010
ISBN: 978-3-642-03682-8 e-ISBN: 978-3-642-03683-5

MERS Coronavirus - Methods and Protocols
This Humana imprint is published by the registered company Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Methods in Molecular Biology
ISBN 978-1-0716-0210-2 ISBN 978-1-0716-0211-9 (eBook)

BEST!
SlideRule

ps: one of he above title is available as a free download on the SPRINGER web site.

[jjohnson873]

During the 2002-2003 SARS outbreak it took about 20 months to develop a vaccine. The vaccine was never made commercially available due to the effective containment of the SARS virus.

Even if a vaccine makes it through all the rounds of testing, it’s unlikely that drugmakers can manufacture enough vaccine to protect everyone who might be exposed to the virus.

Moderna, which currently has the largest manufacturing capacity of the three CEPI-funded groups, thinks it could produce 100 million doses in a year, for the current COVID-19 virus, according to Science. That means health officials would need to prioritize who gets the vaccine. This is based on factors like who would have the most severe symptoms and who is most likely to spread the virus.

It appears that a COVID-19 vaccine, for the general population, will not be available in the immediate future.

[Csaba Tizedes]

(03-26-2020 12:43 PM)jjohnson873 Wrote:  Moderna, which currently has the largest manufacturing capacity of the three CEPI-funded groups, thinks it could produce 100 million doses in a year, for the current COVID-19 virus, according to Science. That means health officials would need to prioritize who gets the vaccine. This is based on factors like who would have the most severe symptoms and who is most likely to spread the virus.

Share a link please!
Thx!
Cs.