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Science Fights the Coronavirus

Category: Technology
Duration: 00:40:35
Publish Date: 2020-03-24 16:45:46
Description:

The exponential growth of COVID-19 is threatening to bring down the world economy. To understand the pandemic, Azeem Azhar chats with professor Yaneer Bar-Yam, President of the New England Complex Systems Institute, who worked on the response to Ebola with pioneering complex-systems mathematics.

In this conversation, they discuss:

  • Why we need to crush, rather than flatten, the curve.
  • What lessons the Ebola outbreak offers us for dealing with COVID-19.
  • What complexity mathematics offers beyond traditional epidemiological modelling.

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Note: a previous version of this episode included an excerpted conversation with Dr. Adam Kucharski, author of “The Rules of Contagion: How Things Spread – and Why They Stop.” That excerpt has now been removed, and the full conversation with Dr. Kucharski can be found here: https://www.exponentialview.co/p/-modeling-the-pandemic.

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