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cord-266480-u8o4eitu	Colubri, Andrés	Preventing outbreaks through interactive, experiential real-life simulations	2020-09-02		.txt	text/plain	3167	173	45	Operation Outbreak (OO) is an educational curriculum and simulation platform that uses Bluetooth to spread a virtual "pathogen" in real-time across smartphones in close proximity. The app-generated data from these simulations represented the "ground truth" of the mock outbreaks, captured several essential features of SARS-CoV-2, and allowed us to observe behavioral changes among participants--many of which are now being mirrored in real life. Our 2018 SMA Ebola simulation first showed how student social-distancing could affect an "outbreak's" trajectory ( Figure 2A More detailed data from the 2019 simulation allowed us to reconstruct transmission chains over time and identify important features of the outbreak, such as the existence of two super-spreaders causing 4 and 5 secondary infections early in the game ( Figure 2C ). We envision OO as playing two key roles: (1) as a pedagogical platform for teaching fundamentals of pandemic response that are vital for the public to understand and (2) as a novel system for simulating outbreaks and evaluating real-world mitigation strategies, including those needed to restart in-person education.	./cache/cord-266480-u8o4eitu.txt	./txt/cord-266480-u8o4eitu.txt