I love visual presentations of ontologies, and this is a beautifully done one. More people should do such things.
That said, I am pretty confused about your ontology. Why is early detection in mitigation and sterilization in prevention? Like, I can kinda see it in that in order to detect a thing it has to already be spreading, but presumably sterilization (UVC, etc) is actually only useful in the worlds where the pathogen is spreading?
I feel like a more natural ontology would be âreducing R0 for generic pathogensâ, âearly detectionâ and âvaccines /â treatmentâ. (I feel most confident that the first one is a natural category.)
I think youâre right on sterilization making more sense for mitigation. My thought process was that sterilization of surfaces in hospitals and the air can almost fully prevent infections from spreading. The case for mitigation does feel more natural though.
On choosing ontologies, I think that several frameworks could have worked in theory, but in practice I felt that the mitigate-prevent framework was the simplest to understand for a general audience. As with all frameworks, there are gray areas, but the distinction is clear enough so that the visual makes sense.
And the things about built environment, and better PPE, are also, in this view, most useful for preventing an infection from ever getting off the ground?
I would really expect PPE to be a mitigation as well.
I love visual presentations of ontologies, and this is a beautifully done one. More people should do such things.
That said, I am pretty confused about your ontology. Why is early detection in mitigation and sterilization in prevention? Like, I can kinda see it in that in order to detect a thing it has to already be spreading, but presumably sterilization (UVC, etc) is actually only useful in the worlds where the pathogen is spreading?
I feel like a more natural ontology would be âreducing R0 for generic pathogensâ, âearly detectionâ and âvaccines /â treatmentâ. (I feel most confident that the first one is a natural category.)
Thanks for the thoughts!
I think youâre right on sterilization making more sense for mitigation. My thought process was that sterilization of surfaces in hospitals and the air can almost fully prevent infections from spreading. The case for mitigation does feel more natural though.
On choosing ontologies, I think that several frameworks could have worked in theory, but in practice I felt that the mitigate-prevent framework was the simplest to understand for a general audience. As with all frameworks, there are gray areas, but the distinction is clear enough so that the visual makes sense.
And the things about built environment, and better PPE, are also, in this view, most useful for preventing an infection from ever getting off the ground?
I would really expect PPE to be a mitigation as well.