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Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by pastor_elm on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:17PM (#22195068)
Any good models that predict the peak of this?
Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by Anon84 on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:21PM (#22195115)
You might want to give http://www.gleamviz.org/simulator/ whirl. You can simulate any epidemic model on a real-life datasets of mobility and healthcare access around the world.

The tricky part is know exactly what the "correct" epidemic model is: length of latent/infectious/etc periods, etc.

Full disclosure: I was once one of the main developers of this epidemic modeling framework.

Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by benji_is_me on Friday January 31, 2020 @02:51AM (#22199898)
Coincidentally I was just looking at gleamviz the other day (I was googling around for accurate modeling programs). Sadly when I tried the linux version, it segfaults after some Qt error.
Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by defgeneric on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:42PM (#22195323)
This is really cool!

Are there any existing models to start with?

Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by Anon84 on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:51PM (#22195431)
I've been disconnected from GLEaM for a while now, so I might be missing something better, but the user manual (http://www.gleamviz.org/simulator/GLEAMviz_client_manual_v7....) guides you thorough an example on Sec 4
Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by dredmorbius on Friday January 31, 2020 @04:10AM (#22200198)
If containment measures begun on January 22 are effective, cases should begin falling from trend over the next few days (27th through Feb 5 or so). We're at about 10,000 identified cases, I expect that will climb to ~50k, with about 1,000 - 2,000 deaths.

I'm not an epidemiologist, but rather a space alien cat, so factor accordingly.

Re:WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency by woutr_be on Thursday January 30, 2020 @10:51PM (#22198863)
Not a prediction, but if what I'm reading in the news is true, it's supposed to peak within two weeks.