{"id":39208,"date":"2013-10-15T20:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T02:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/15\/the-game-of-life-or-in-some-cases-death.html"},"modified":"2013-10-15T20:00:53","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T02:00:53","slug":"the-game-of-life-or-in-some-cases-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/15\/the-game-of-life-or-in-some-cases-death.html","title":{"rendered":"The Game of Life (or, in some cases, Death)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Fun series of models demonstrating how epidemics, immunity, and herd immunity work (and what happens when the latter breaks down). \u00a0(The comments are pretty interesting, too.)<\/div>\n

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Fun series of models demonstrating how epidemics, immunity, and herd immunity work (and what happens when the latter breaks down). \u00a0(The comments are pretty interesting, too.) Embedded Link stochastic monte-carlo epidemic sir model to reveal herd immunity stochastic monte-carlo epidemic sir model to reveal herd immunity This post has been reshared 1 times on Google+ … Continue reading “The Game of Life (or, in some cases, Death)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28562,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/13\/herd-immunity-and-hpv-its-a-good-thing.html","url_meta":{"origin":39208,"position":0},"title":"Herd immunity and HPV … it's a good thing","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 13-Jul-12 6:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"Infection rates appear to be down even among girls who haven't been vaccinated.Reshared post from +Jim Feig Embedded Link Just 6 years later, HPV vaccine may already provide herd immunity Infection rates of the viruses it targets are dropping among the unvaccinated. 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