This is a video follow-up to my last post.
Test and trace offers a promising path to halt the spread of an infectious disease in its tracks. But how accurate does the testing need to be? And how fast must cases be traced? In this video we offer the control theorist’s perspective, and investigate what stability theory and the fundamental limits of feedback have to say.
- Agent based SIR simulations by 3Blue1Brown. Included with permission (though do not read as endorsement):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxAaO2rsdIs - Video animations produced using Manim – a huge thank you to 3Blue1Brown for making this available!
https://github.com/3b1b/manim - Covid-19 dataset taken from from:
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-source-data - SAGE information on test and trace:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/888807/S0402_Thirty-second_SAGE_meeting_on_Covid-19_.pdf