{"id":127234,"date":"2021-05-25T15:58:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T13:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=127234"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:25:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:25:39","slug":"corona-science-this-infectious-disease-modelling-expert-determines-how-human-behaviour-is-affecting-the-pandemic-and-vice-versa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2021\/05\/25\/corona-science-this-infectious-disease-modelling-expert-determines-how-human-behaviour-is-affecting-the-pandemic-and-vice-versa\/","title":{"rendered":"Corona science: this infectious disease modelling expert determines how human behaviour is affecting the pandemic, and vice versa"},"content":{"rendered":"

How does a pandemic affect human behaviour, and how does this, in turn, affect the way in which the pandemic develops? Infectious disease modelling expert Luc Coffeng, who works at Erasmus MC\u2019s Public Health unit, seeks to combine Dutch people\u2019s behaviour and COVID-19 epidemiology in an innovative mathematical model so as to get a better understanding of the development of the pandemic, which will help us be better prepared for any other outbreaks of infectious diseases that may occur in the future.<\/p>\n

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At the start of the pandemic, Luc Coffeng and his colleague Sake de Vlas (both working from home, obviously) spent up to one hundred hours a week developing a mathematical model that would show us how infection rates would rise or fall, depending on which kind of policy the government would implement.<\/p>\n\n\t

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