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outbreak history layer ongoing outbreaks #97

Open n8layman opened 1 month ago

n8layman commented 1 month ago

How should we deal with ongoing outbreaks? For example, if the outbreak_start_date is before date but end_date is after date? The current approach is:

end_date = pmin(date, end_date, na.rm = T)

and then we filter such that,

 filter(date > end_date, years_since < max_years & years_since >= 0)

but date > end_date makes the pmin bit unnecessary. Are we also assuming that for an outbreak with a long interval all the cases happen on the end date? Or should we be splitting them up along the interval somehow?

n8layman commented 1 month ago

Getting more fine-grained data for specific locations such as Tanzania may also be possible. @rostal mentioned that Harold may have more information. Mindy and I discussed that for now we don't need to spread the case data out over the interval and just to use the start and end dates.

n8layman commented 1 month ago

Change recent outbreaks to 'spread risk' and old outbreaks to 'population level immunity'.