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An app created to help students learn about viruses became even more educational than anticipated when COVID-19 spread.

Virus simulation results show BYU pandemic-related policies are effective Participants in the BYU Operation Outbreak simulation show their phones open to the Operation Outbreak app. The results of the simulation hosted between Feb. 19 and March 1, 2021 were presented in a seminar given on April 8, 2021. (Todd Jackson) An Operation Outbreak virus simulation found that BYU pandemic-related policies helped slow transmission of a virtual “virus.” Curtis Hoffmann founded the BYU Operation Outbreak student association when he teamed up with Operation Outbreak co-creators Todd Brown and Pardis S...

The Daily Universe BYU Operation Outbreak is a student association aimed to educate students about infectious diseases through experiential learning. It will be holding a virtual simulation of the spread of a disease similar to COVID-19 through participants’ phones. (Forrest Stull/BYU Operation Outbreak) BYU researchers are hosting a campus-wide virtual outbreak of a disease similar to COVID-19 using phones as the “virus” distributers. The outbreak began Friday, Feb. 19. The outbreak simulation is directed by the student association BYU Operation Outbreak in connection with Operatio...