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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Inferring the effective fraction of the population infected with Covid-19 from the behaviour of Lombardy, Madrid and London relative to the remainder of Italy, Spain and England · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2005.00495/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2005.00495/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>Inferring the effective fraction of the population infected with Covid-19 from the behaviour of Lombardy, Madrid and London relative to the remainder of Italy, Spain and England — mentioned by marojejian</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23195013</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2005.00495:23195013</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2020 17:45:03 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Like most questions, the answer will get more complex the closer you look. But we&amp;#x27;re doing the &amp;quot;science&amp;quot; thing: collecting more data, and narrowing the error bars. Past a point, you know enough that more accuracy won&amp;#x27;t change your action choices. That&amp;#x27;s a good enough answer for me. Here are some recent analyses: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.03.20089854v... https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.00495 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3590771&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2005.00495/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>q-bio.PE</category></item><item><title>Inferring the effective fraction of the population infected with Covid-19 from the behaviour of Lombardy, Madrid and London relative to the remainder of Italy, Spain and England — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23170231</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:2005.00495:23170231</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2020 18:46:25 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Inferring IFR of Covid-19&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1 point; 1 discussion reply on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2005.00495/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>q-bio.PE</category></item></channel></rss>
