The world today is in chaos due to corona virus and the biggest difficulty is being faced by policymakers. Remember how flawed calculations mess up the effective activities in some nations with ravaging COVID-19 spread?
At this time of dilemma, scientists are trying to assign a proper mathematical tool to give a better advancement in solving the instability caused by this corona virus. Let us have a look at the recent news that got the attention of many. Most of the methods we have today fail to take into consideration the changes that occur in disease during its transmission or spread. This can become a major disadvantage in cases where the spread of certain disease exceeds beyond our control. As a result, a group of scientists put forth their latest concept regarding a new model.
Currently, a new model developed by Princeton and Carnegie Mellon researchers claims to be a better model to keep track of the panedmics, even accounting for mutations. H. Vincent Poor, the Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering, an expert in the field of information theory whose work has helped establish modern cellphone networks, says that epidemics are similar to the spread of information through social networks.
But accounting for mutations, which come about owing to various physical factors and the spread through various kinds of social networks is more effective in this new model. This takes the physical factors as parameters and abstracts them into graphs of connected nodes, and is agnostic to the kind of social networking among various communities.
The model is now being applied to track CoViD-19 and is helping leaders to decide the next step in controlling the spread of disease.
– Adarsha H A
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