Universal Masking is Urgent in the COVID-19 Pandemic: SEIR and Agent Based Models, Empirical Validation, Policy Recommendations · HackerPapers discussions

Universal Masking is Urgent in the COVID-19 Pandemic: SEIR and Agent Based Models, Empirical Validation, Policy Recommendations — mentioned by keenmaster

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 02:42:26 GMT

Here is an excellent study with both theoretical and empirical results showing the efficacy and importance of universal mask wearing, even when cotton masks are used (PDF download is in the upper right corner): https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13553 Institutions involved: University of Cambridge, University College London, Ecole de Guerre Economique, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology As for Michael Osterholm, I don't have much patience for people like him so I won't cite this but you can easily look it up: he clarified his comments and said that people should universally wear…

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Universal Masking is Urgent in the COVID-19 Pandemic: SEIR and Agent Based Models, Empirical Validation, Policy Recommendations — mentioned by fraculus

Sun, 24 May 2020 00:08:10 GMT

I think first link really oversells the study it references, though.Key quotes, from the paper: "The factor by which β was reduced was conservatively set to 2." "Varying degrees of mask effectiveness are modelled by the mask transmission rate T and mask absorption rate A, which denote the proportion of viruses that are stopped by the mask during exhaling (transmission) versus inhaling (absorption), respectively. Weset T = 0.7 and A = 0.7 to model the use of inexpensive, widely available, and even nonmedical or homemade masks [...]" So basically, they assume certain values for how effective…

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Universal Masking is Urgent in the COVID-19 Pandemic: SEIR and Agent Based Models, Empirical Validation, Policy Recommendations — mentioned by em500

Sat, 09 May 2020 11:01:29 GMT

Model description: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.13553.pdf

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