Geographically Assisted Agent-based Model
for COVID-19 Transmission
What is GeoACT?
A key concern amid the COVID-19 pandemic is the safe return of children, teachers, staff to schools.
While there a variety of high-level policies and plans being proposed local governments, there is little to be known about how these policies may affect specific individual schools.
GeoACT helps elucidate and expedite the safe reopening of schools using spatially-explicit agent-based modeling to help schools evaluate and improve their reopening plans to prevent super-spreader events and outbreaks.
Features
School Model
Our school model takes user-input school-specific data such as floor-plans, class schedules, furniture layouts, as well as planned pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions to estimate the extent of COVID-19 transmission in specific schools. The GeoACT model then blends this with the best available science governing COVID-19 transmission dynamics to provide users an estimate of the extent of COVID-19 transmission as well as the spatial distributions of case loads in specific schools.
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Bus Model
Along with integrating our model into the school ecosystem, GeoACT extends its capability to activities beyond school-hours. By accounting for transmission, ventilation in confined spaces and using real-time case data on specific routes, GeoACT successfully simulates the spread of COVID-19 aboard school buses.
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Get to know all things GeoACT
Model Overview at Halicioğlu Data Science Institute
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How to use GeoACT for your School?
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A Deeper Dive into the Science
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Results
Example ResultsGeoACT in the Press
- UCSD This Week: UC San Diego Data Science Undergrads Help Keep K-12 Students COVID-Safe
- HPC Wire: SDSC Supercomputers Helped Enable Safer School Reopenings
- XSEDE Science Success Story: San Diego Supercomputer Center Researchers Help Keep K-12 Students COVID-Safe
- San Diego County Office of Education: E-DECISION TREE HELPS SCHOOLS WITH COVID-19 PROTOCOLS
- UC IT Blog: UC San Diego Data Science Undergrads Help Keep K-12 Students COVID-Safe
- West Big Data Innovation Hub: West Hub Affiliate Researcher Leads Efforts to Help Keep K-12 Students COVID-Safe
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