Transmission T-008: Michael Hochberg on the Importance of Timing in Restrictive Confinement
Physical distancing is necessary for reducing infections, but the timing of restrictive confinement makes all the difference.
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Physical distancing is necessary for reducing infections, but the timing of restrictive confinement makes all the difference.
A “mobilize and transition” strategy could reduce COVID-19 mortality while cushioning the economic decline.
We can use social media data to detect signatures of global crises, including early warning signs.
The disease models used to guide policy for the COVID-19 pandemic must capture key complexities of transmission.
On March 31, five speakers from epidemiology and economics discussed strategies for both public health and economic recovery, and answered questions from the SFI community.
SFI External Professor Joshua Epstein states the contagion of fear is as significant to the current pandemic as the novel coronavirus itself.
By using transmission to our advantage, we can eliminate coronavirus through citizen-based medicine.
Philip Anderson, a theoretical physicist who wrote rules that dictate the strange behavior of condensed matter and lent his deep intuition to problems beyond physics, died on March 29, 2020.
Getting the quarantine end game right means thinking about how to change thinking itself.
To forecast the spread of the novel coronavirus, we must attend to the quality and consistency of the data.
Group size matters when it comes to how many people should gather in one place. Let's use mathematical models to pin down consistent guidelines for complicated situations.
In a complex crisis, scientists cannot avoid making value judgments.
With the rapid global spread of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, the Santa Fe Institute has suspended all public events and scientific meetings. Check here for live updates.
SFI's President David Krakauer announces the Institute's suspension of visitor-related programs due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
What would life on Earth be were it not for the domestication of plants and animals? An SFI working group, "Re-evaluating the Origins and Trajectories of Domestication," running March 9-11, explores "the nature of relationships between human groups and lots of different plants and animals."
Event Cancelled In this SFI Community Lecture on March 24, Sara Walker, an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist interested in the origin of life, will guide us through approaches aimed at developing a new theory for understanding life.
Abrupt environmental changes, known as regime shifts, are the subject of new research in which shows how small environmental changes trigger slow evolutionary processes that eventually precipitate collapse.
Shifting from carbon-emitting energy sources to renewable ones will be an essential part of addressing climate change, but the path to a renewable power grid is uncharted. A February 26-28 working group explores how New Mexico might best approach the transition to renewable energy sources, and what lessons could be useful for other regions.
In a new issue of PLOS One dedicated to the “science of stories," SFI's Mirta Galesic and her fellow guest editors present emerging computational approaches that could add a new dimension to narrative analysis.
NPR’s David Brancaccio is hosting a free, virtual book club around the CORE team's introductory econ textbook.