A teaching tool that simulates a virus s spread became all too real this year
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Virus simulation results show BYU pandemic-related policies are effective
Participants in the BYU Operation Outbreak simulation show their phones open to the Operation Outbreak app. The results of the simulation hosted between Feb. 19 and March 1, 2021 were presented in a seminar given on April 8, 2021. (Todd Jackson)
An Operation Outbreak virus simulation found that BYU pandemic-related policies helped slow transmission of a virtual “virus.”
Curtis Hoffmann founded the BYU Operation Outbreak student association when he teamed up with Operation Outbreak co-creators Todd Brown and Pardis Sabeti, bringing the simulation to BYU and local K-12 schools.
The BYU microbiology and molecular biology department hosted a seminar on April 8 presenting the results from the simulation hosted between Feb. 19 and March 1. The three speakers at the seminar were BYU microbiology professor Brett Pickett, BYU public health professor Len Novilla and Andres Colubri from the Broad Institute of MIT
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BYU Operation Outbreak is a student association aimed to educate students about infectious diseases through experiential learning. It will be holding a virtual simulation of the spread of a disease similar to COVID-19 through participants’ phones. (Forrest Stull/BYU Operation Outbreak)
BYU researchers are hosting a campus-wide virtual outbreak of a disease similar to COVID-19 using phones as the “virus” distributers. The outbreak began Friday, Feb. 19.
The outbreak simulation is directed by the student association BYU Operation Outbreak in connection with Operation Outbreak, an outreach program by Sarasota Military Academy prep school and the Sabeti Lab at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.