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pg2455 / covid_p2p_simulation

Simulator for COVID-19 spread
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Viral load does not depend on initial_viral_load #118

Open tristandeleu opened 4 years ago

tristandeleu commented 4 years ago

When exposed, the Human get an initial_viral_load sampled, which I assume is the value of the viral load when they get exposed (the viral load / time piecewise linear curve starts at initial_viral_load). https://github.com/pg2455/covid_p2p_simulation/blob/62c7e416c803ed9f00e8f561b6bdb69a2d9ff800/simulator.py#L909

initial_viral_load is used to generate the symptoms, and to compute the recovery time, but does not appear in the computation of viral_load. Is this an issue? https://github.com/pg2455/covid_p2p_simulation/blob/62c7e416c803ed9f00e8f561b6bdb69a2d9ff800/simulator.py#L339-L362

pg2455 commented 4 years ago

This is more of a placeholder for now. We had some problems in modeling the initial_viral_load for the infected person. It is assumed to have no effect for now.