Comic Strip Explaining COVID-19 Transmission Factors

FiveThirtyEight · 2020-04-13 14:58:27+00:00

AI-generated image description: A multi-panel editorial cartoon explaining COVID-19 transmission factors including rate of contact, transmission per contact, and virus biology using illustrated characters and speech bubbles. AI-extracted visible text: THIS IS THE ONLY THING YOU CAN PERSONALLY CONTROL AND IT'S WHY EVERYONE IS SPENDING ALL THIS TIME INDOORS, TALKING ABOUT SOCIAL DISTANCING. RATE OF CONTACT ISN'T UNIFORM -- IT DIFFERS FROM PERSON TO PERSON, DEPENDING ON FACTORS LIKE THEIR LIVING SITUATION AND JOB, AND IT CHANGES BASED ON PUBLIC HEALTH INTERVENTIONS AND LOCATION. "IMAGINE THE DIFFERENCE IN CONTACT RATE BETWEEN THE APPALACHIAN PART OF OHIO AND, YOU KNOW, DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND OR COLUMBUS." THEN COMES THE RATE OF TRANSMISSION PER CONT Originally embedded in "A Comic Strip Tour Of The Wild World Of Pandemic Modeling", an article by Zach Weinersmith, Maggie Koerth, Laura Bronner, and Jasmine Mithani: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-comic-strip-tour-of-the-wild-world-of-pandemic-modeling/ Original source URL: https://fivethirtyeight.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/maggiecovid_final_9_internet.png AI disclosure: Image descriptions and visible-text extraction were generated using Sonnet 4.6 by Anthropic.