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The CDC spreadsheet is supposed to model a single West African country, and doesn't explicitly model any of those things. It doesn't account for finite medical
by throwaway_yy2Di 12y ago
The CDC spreadsheet is supposed to model a single West African country, and doesn't explicitly model any of those things.
It doesn't account for finite medical capacity. It assumes a specified fraction of patients are isolated in hospitals at a given time, a fraction that increases, regardless of the size of the epidemic. I think the burden is on users to check if the results make any sense (it does give you the # of beds in use at a time, so you get that feedback).