covid-sim
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1 # Glossary
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5 ## Admin unit
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7 An administrative unit is a geographical region administered by a political
8 entity (e.g., UK county, USA state etc.)
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10 ## Cells
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12 Cells collect microcells.
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14 ## Crit
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16 Critical, assumed to need ICU
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18 ## CritRecovery
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20 Critical Recover, assumed to be well enough to leave ICU but still need
21 hospitalisation in a general ward
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23 ## ILI
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25 Influenza like illness, assumed to attend GP clinic
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27 ## FOI
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29 Force Of Infection.
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31 ## Microcells
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33 Microcells represent the basic unit of space (a small part of a geographical region).
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35 ## Mild
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37 Mild illness, assumed to require no medical intervention
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39 ## Network file
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41 A cached file, representing the allocation of people and places to a geography,
42 which can be re-used between runs of `CovidSim` that share the same subset of
43 consistent parameters.
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45 ## People
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47 Individual humans.
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49 ## Places
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51 Civic institutions, such as schools, workplaces etc.
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53 ## Place groups
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55 Groups within a place (e.g., departments in a company).
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57 ## SARI
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59 Severity Acute Respiratory Illness, assumed to need hospitalisation.