Show HN: Covid-19 Interactive Model
Hi everyone, My name is Nicholas Noll, a computational biologist and co-developer of the above tool. As of now there are two other people actively working on this project: Richard Neher, Ivan Aksamentov, and I. Richard and I have a background in theoretical physics but we have been working on quantitative biology and epidemiology. Richard is also one of the founders of nextstrain.org which leverages phylogenetic analyses to track the global spread of many pathogens -- including SARS-CoV-2. The other person, Ivan, is a super talented software engineer who just recently joined our group.We started working on this a few weeks ago, in collaboration with Jan Albert and Roberk Dyrdak, as a helpful model for public health officials and hospitals to help predict the usage of local community hospitals, and explore the utility and immediate need for quarantine measures.We are very much still actively developing the tool, now with an eye to help global communities at large. If anyone is interested to help, we are trying to organize a road map and put it together on our Github page. I'll be around to answer questions and listen to feedback.