Queueing and COVID19

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• May 1, 2020. Corona Virus Data, Charts or Canada and Internationally from CBC TV network
  https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/coronavirustracker/
• May 1, 2020. List of every Covid case in Ontario. This is a great data set to analyse.
  https://data.ontario.ca/dataset/confirmed-positive-cases-of-covid-19-in-ontario/resource/455fd63b-603d-4608-8216-7d8647f43350
• May 1, 2020. Tracking Covid-19 cases in the US. Counts by state.
  https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/health/coronavirus-us-maps-and-cases/
• Gender Differences in Patients With COVID-19: Focus on Severity and Mortality. Frontiers of Public Health, by Jian-Min Jin1,2, Peng Bai1,2, Wei He3, Fei Wu2, Xiao-Fang Liu1, De-Min Han4, Shi Liu2* and Jin-Kui Yang5* 29 April 2020.
  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00152
• April 27, 2020. Why are more men dying from COVID-19? by Laura Geggel. Live Science Web site.
  https://www.livescience.com/why-covid-19-more-severe-men.html
• May 1, 2020. COVID-19 sex-disaggregated data tracker: Sex, gender and COVID-19. Global Health 50/50.
  https://globalhealth5050.org/gh5050-how-to-series/
• April 7, 2020. Covid-19 cases by country list.
  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/countries-where-coronavirus-has-spread/
• April 7, 2020. Online popular math magazine has several articles on covid-19.
  https://plus.maths.org/content/
• April 6, 2020. M. Hlynka writes: If one looks at the Covid-19 cases by country with cases and deaths, one observes that the proportions are not even close to being constant. Does this mean that the countries with a high proportion of deaths relative to cases, are simply not detecting all the cases and that explains why the proportion is so high? Or is something else happening here?
• April 5, 2020. M. Hlynka writes: "We note that there is (or will be) a shortage of respirators for covid-19 patients. This is essentially a double sided queueing system."
  https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jat/2019/6538265/
  We have patients needing respirators, whereas earlier we had respirators sitting and waiting for patients. The classic example of double sided queues is taxi cabs and passengers where in some circumstances we had cabs waiting for passengers and in other cirucumstances we had passengers wating for cabs.
• April 4, 2020. M. Hlynka (hlynka@uwindsor.ca) writes:
  In these times of covid-19, there are rules for social distancing, including the number of people that be inside a store. Today I went to a local pharmacy. The pharmacy is a store with many aisles of other items (food, magazines, beauty items, etc.) for sale. Some items (e.g. paper products, hand sanitizer) were in short supply or sold out. The sign on the entrance door said Maximum capacity = 50 people. There were 3 people waiting in line outside and they were allowed in one at a time as individuals left the store. The fact that there were only 3 people waiting may mean several things. That there was any waiting at all suggests that the arrival rate must be close to the service rate. Further, the fact that there were so few people waiting suggests that this may be a situation of queueing with balking or queueing with discouragement.
  https://www.ijitee.org/wp-content/uploads/papers/v8i9/I8985078919.pdf
• April 3, 2020. A Compelling Story: Some Coronavirus Curves Are Starting to Flatten
  https://healthpolicy.usc.edu/evidence-base/some-coronavirus-curves-are-starting-to-flatten/
• April, 2020.
  MIDAS: Online Portal for COVID-19 Modeling Research
  https://midasnetwork.us/covid-19/
• March 27, 2020. Coronavirus: Supermarket shoppers 'keep calm' and queue, By Emma Kasprzak, BBC News
  https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-52051322
• March 27, 2020. Wuhan, endless queues for ashes of coronavirus dead cast doubts on numbers, by Lu Haitao. Asia News.
  http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Wuhan,-endless-queues-for-ashes-of-coronavirus-dead-cast-doubts-on-numbers-49673.html
• 26 March 2020. When a system breaks: a queuing theory model for the number of intensive care beds needed during the COVID-19 pandemic, by Hamish DD Meares and Michael P Jones. Med J Australia (publ online)
  https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2020/212/10/when-system-breaks-queuing-theory-model-number-intensive-care-beds-needed
• Mar 26, 2020. Covid-19: People use freedom in Wuhan to queue at cemeteries as restrictions ease | ITV News
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK4MaN-z-7c
• 25 Mar 2020. Fears grow for Italy's non-coronavirus patients at back of queue. by Ylenia Gostoli
  https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/fears-grow-italy-coronavirus-patients-queue-200325173639343.html
• March 21, 2020. How Are the Rich and Famous Jumping the Test Queues? In England, by Paying $425, By Denise Roland and Joshua Robinson Wall Street Journal.
  https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-are-the-rich-and-famous-jumping-the-test-queues-in-england-by-paying-440-11584799200
• March 18, 2020. A nice accessible mathematical discussion of the so-called SIR model for virus spread, by Oxford mathematician Tom Crawford.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKMHhm2Zbkw
• March 11, 2020. Mac Hyman on math and COVID-19
  Some good links here.
  https://www.ams.org/news?news_id=5934
• March 9, 2020. Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Identification Time Analysis Using Queueing Model, by Vladimiras Dolgopolovas
  Submitted to: JMIR Public Health and Surveillance on: March 09, 2020
  https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/assets.jmir.org/assets/preprints/preprint-18635-submitted.pdf
• Feb 24, 2020. Massive queue for masks in South Korea.
  https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-51609712/coronavirus-drone-captures-massive-queue-for-masks-in-south-korea

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