{"id":19125,"date":"2020-05-14T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=19125"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:04:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:04:59","slug":"watch-how-predictive-modeling-could-help-us-reopen-more-safely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/14\/watch-how-predictive-modeling-could-help-us-reopen-more-safely\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: How predictive modeling could help us reopen more safely"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Understanding COVID-19 transmission rates in different types of homes\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KzfIW6-hjj4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Increasingly specific social distancing questions are weighing on states and municipalities as they inch toward relaxing COVID-19 restrictions. Now, a team of computer science and medical researchers based at U-M is working on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.engin.umich.edu\/2020\/05\/how-predictive-modeling-could-help-us-reopen-more-safely\/\">a tool that could provide more precise answers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The team is mashing up census data, virus transmission rates, and decades of social science research to create a customizable prototype that can visually model an individual household. They hope to make an open-source version available within the next few months, enabling decision makers to evaluate how proposed policies would affect virus transmission rates in different types of households.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe want to give policymakers the power to ask \u2018what-if\u2019 questions about the effects of specific policies and actions, before they\u2019re implemented,\u201d said <strong>Nikola Banovic<\/strong>, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science. \u201cBy trying out dozens or hundreds of possible interventions in a simulation, we could much more quickly find policies that would keep people safe while minimizing disruption to daily life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increasingly specific social distancing questions are weighing on states and municipalities as they inch toward relaxing COVID-19 restrictions. Now, a team of computer science and medical researchers based at U-M is working on a tool that could provide more precise answers. 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Now, a team of computer science and medical researchers based at U-M is working on a tool that could provide more precise answers. 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