Reinforcement Learning for Optimization of COVID-19 Mitigation policies

Understand

The year 2020 has seen the COVID-19 virus lead to one of the worst global pandemics in history.

• As a result, governments around the world are faced with the challenge of protecting public health, while keeping the economy running to the greatest extent possible.
• Epidemiological models provide insight into the spread of these types of diseases and predict the effects of possible intervention policies.
• However, to date,the even the most data-driven intervention policies rely on heuristics.