A LITERATURE REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF LOCKDOWNS ON COVID-19 MORTALITY
On 3 Feb, 2022 By admin 0 Comments
Non-pharmaceutical Interventions
Planet Lockdown: A Documentary
On 27 Jan, 2022 By admin 0 Comments
How bad data quality can turn a simulation into a dissimulation that shapes the future
On 14 Dec, 2021 By admin 0 Comments
DSA ADS Course, 2022
Data Quality, Black Box Models, Bad Models, Origins of SARS-CoV-2, Epidemiology, Non-pharmaceutical Interventions, Mitigation Strategies, COVID19, Health Policy, Public Policy
Review data quality evaluations, bad model design, policy decision-making based on data science, black box models, unwarranted assumptions in models, and evidence based policy making with near real-time data.
A TALE OF TWO SCIENTIFIC PARADIGMS: CONFLICTING SCIENTIFIC OPINIONS ON WHAT “FOLLOWING THE SCIENCE” MEANS FOR SARS-COV-2 AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
On 12 Aug, 2021 By admin 0 Comments
August, 2021
DSA ADS Course - 2021
COVID19, Public Policy, Health Policy, Modeling, Model-driven Science, Empirically-driven Science, Lockdowns, Non-pharmaceutical Interventions, NPIs
Discuss 2 paradigms: Model-driven Science vs. Empirically-driven Science
Assessing Mandatory Stay‐at‐Home and Business Closure Effects on the Spread of COVID‐19
On 7 Jan, 2021 By admin 0 Comments
January, 2021
Abstract
Background and Aims
The most restrictive non‐pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) for controlling the spread of COVID‐19 are mandatory stay‐at‐home and business closures. Given the consequences of these policies, it is important to assess their effects. We evaluate the effects on epidemic case growth of more restrictive NPIs (mrNPIs), above and beyond those of less restrictive NPIs (lrNPIs).
Methods
Effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19: A Tale of Three Models
On 27 Dec, 2020 By admin 0 Comments
December, 2020
Abstract
Objective To compare the inference regarding the effectiveness of the various non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) for COVID-19 obtained from different SIR models.
Illusory Effects of Non-pharmaceutical Interventions on COVID19 in Europe
On 21 Jun, 2020 By admin 0 Comments
June 8, 2020 - Stefan Homburg, Christof Kuhbandner
Abstract
Flaxman et al. (Nature, 8 June 2020, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2405-7, 2020) infer that non-pharmaceutical interventions conducted by several European countries considerably reduced effective reproduction numbers and saved millions of lives. We show that their method is ill-conceived and that the alleged effects are artefacts. Moreover, we demonstrate that the United Kingdom?s lockdown was both superfluous and ineffective.