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Scott Olesen
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What value does infectious disease modeling have for state & local public health practitioners? CFA is experimenting with new ways of writing about it: www.cdc.gov/cfa-behind-t...
Behind the Model: How Disease Modeling Supported Decision-Making in a Local Measles Outbreak Response
CFA and NCIRD supported the Chicago/Illinois Departments of Public Health during a measles outbreak.
www.cdc.gov
July 3, 2024 at 1:14 PM
Very proud to have had the chance to support the response to the measles outbreak in Chicago using infectious disease modeling!

Report on the outbreak: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

Report on the modeling: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

Public code to reproduce results: github.com/CDCgov/measl...
Measles Outbreak Associated with a Migrant Shelter ...
This report describes a measles outbreak at a migrant shelter in Chicago.
www.cdc.gov
May 16, 2024 at 5:15 PM
How do you know how many ppl have a disease like Covid? Two sol'ns: 1) mail tests to a nationwide random sample or 2) ask people at airports to volunteer a nasal swab. Data from CDC traveler-based surveillance shows that these 2 methods gave very similar results for the UK dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
February 18, 2024 at 4:11 PM
CDC CFA just published its first wastewater-informed forecasts of COVID-19 hospitalizations: www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/...

The code and model are public: github.com/CDCgov/waste...
GitHub - CDCgov/wastewater-informed-covid-forecasting: Wastewater-informed COVID-19 forecasting mode...
Wastewater-informed COVID-19 forecasting models submitted to the COVID-19 Forecast Hub - GitHub - CDCgov/wastewater-informed-covid-forecasting: Wastewater-informed COVID-19 forecasting models submi...
github.com
February 7, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Humans fewer hours in the Stone Age than they worked today, and a smaller proportion of people went hungry. This is one reason I'm skeptical that more AI will produce more leisure. open.substack.com/pub/scottole...
Working hard or hardly working
Hunger and the length of a work day, in the Stone Age
open.substack.com
January 13, 2024 at 5:27 PM