Julia Gog (Photo by Henry Kenyon) and David Spiegelhalter.

This podcast is dedicated to the one thing that's been on everybody's mind for the last few weeks: the coronavirus. We report on our conversation with Julia Gog, an epidemiologist who has been informing the Science Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), talk to David Spiegelhalter, Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication, about how to communicate science during a crisis, and explore the maths of herd immunity in one minute.

To find out more about the topics covered in this podcast see:

• Communicating the coronavirus crisis
• How can maths fight a pandemic?
• A call to action on COVID-19
• Taking the pandemic temperature

The music in this podcast comes from the band eusa. The track is called Now we are all SoB's.

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This podcast was partially funded by the European Mathematical Society.