The strategy against COVID-19 spreading depends on mathematical modeling—but how?
COVID-19 is presently impacting the entire world and different approaches to stopping the epidemic are tested around the globe. As weeks pass by, we learn more and more about this little virus, which affects our everyday lives and our world so much. In the biocomplexity section at the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI), University of Copenhagen, the researchers are busy applying methods from the physics of complex systems to examine how the epidemic is best handled. The, by now, well known and simplest manner is the "lock down," which we've been going through during the months of March and April. It is also the most expensive, it proved to be efficient, something we couldn't know before testing it. But there are many ways of calculating and forecasting the development of the epidemic, and the researchers in biocomplexity and complex systems explain one of them here, as well as some of the...