Re:Please poke holes in my Covid-19 math (SF Bay Area)
by hef19898 on Sunday March 15, 2020 @03:31PM
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Finally! I have been almost killed for calling this out. It's like some people believe epidemiologists haven't figured that out yet. And it does make a huge difference, whether the underlying function has a natural peak or not.
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Re:Please poke holes in my Covid-19 math (SF Bay Area)
by baq on Sunday March 15, 2020 @04:42PM
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you're technically right, but i think from a policy making standpoint it doesn't matter because it's the exponential part that needs to be contained by policy and not the saturation part. this is where the hard decisions have to be made. if no decisions are made, saturation starts to happen when the game is lost.