In Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine, an Oxford Group Leaps Ahead
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/world/europe/coronavirus-vaccine-update-oxford.html
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covid-19 vaccine?
April 28, 2020COVID-19/Coronavirus Real Time Updates With Credible Sources in US and Canada | 1Point3Acres
April 26, 2020Yes, You Can Use AirPods on Android Devices
April 25, 2020contact tracing
April 23, 2020MIT contact tracing:
http://news.mit.edu/2020/bluetooth-covid-19-contact-tracing-0409
A path for the US building products industry | McKinsey
April 18, 2020QT:{{”
“Consumers, especially young ones, are likely to peg their purchasing behavior to environmental concerns; 70 percent of millennials surveyed said that they take companies’ stewardship of the environment into consideration when making purchasing decisions. Companies in diverse industries have responded by increasing their green offerings, in part because consumers are often willing to pay a premium for green products and services.”
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Mask
April 17, 2020Cuomo mandated both rider and driver of uber+lyft to wear mask.
NY’s all-the-time mask law is the most restrictive in the nation; other states are catching up
The Two Settings of Kind and Wicked Learning Environments
April 17, 2020There’s a paper on this topic that introduced the idea of “kind and wicked learning environments”:
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5c5d/33b858eaf38f6a14b3f042202f1f44e04326.pdf
…in wicked environments it is difficult to do inference based on data. One solution seems to be to break down the problem in such a way that you can observe sub-problems in a kind environment.
The Two Settings of Kind and Wicked Learning Environments
Robin M. Hogarth1, Tomás Lejarraga2, and Emre Soyer3
Abstract
QT:{{” Inference involves two settings: In the first, information is acquired (learning); in the second, it is applied (predictions or choices). Kind learning environments involve close matches between the informational elements in the two settings and are a necessary condition for accurate inferences. Wicked learning environments involve mismatches. This conceptual framework facilitates identifying sources of inferential errors and can be used, among other things, to suggest how to target corrective procedures. For example, structuring learning environments to be kind improves probabilistic judgments. Potentially, it could also enable economic agents to exhibit maximizing behavior.
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Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 transmission suggests epidemic control with digital contact tracing | Science
April 15, 2020https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/03/30/science.abb6936
Great idea for #covid19… However, digital contact tracing has serious #privacy issues that have to be considered and perhaps ameliorated.
Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 transmission suggests epidemic control with digital contact tracing
Luca Ferretti1,*, Chris Wymant1,*, Michelle Kendall1, Lele Zhao1, Anel Nurtay1, Lucie Abeler-Dörner1, Michael Parker2, David Bonsall1,3,†, Christophe Fraser1,4,†,‡
Science 31 Mar 2020: eabb6936
DOI: 10.1126/science.abb6936
Fig 2 shows the breakdown of infections into four types:
pre-symptomatic, symptomatic, environmental, and asymptomatic, and they contribute 0.9, 0.8., 0.2, and 0.1 each to the basic reproduction number of 2. To stop the spread of infections, you need to take measures to get the area under the curve to below 1. The paper then shows that when you do quarantining and contact tracing, you can’t get the reproduction number below 1. However, if you improve the speed of quarantining and contact tracing with a digital app/centralized system, then you can get it below 1.
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