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How can maths fight an epidemic?
How can we use mathematics to model the spread of a disease?
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The doubling time of a disease
The doubling time of a disease is the time it takes for the number of cases of the disease to double. How do you calculate it?
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The growth rate of a disease
What is the growth rate and what does it tell us about an epidemic?
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Disease modelling for beginners
This collection of articles looks at some basic concepts in epidemiology and how mathematics plays a central role in understanding how infectious diseases spread.
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R and herd immunity
What is herd immunity and what does it have to do with a number called R?
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Revolutionising the power of blood tests using AI
The BloodCounts! project is gearing up towards one of the largest-scale applications yet of machine learning in medicine and healthcare.
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Julia Gog's mathematical toolkit for pandemics
A mathematical, and personal, look into how we all had to balance the different harms of the virus and the steps we took against it.
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SBIDER Presents: Shining a light on COVID modelling
Was the mathematical modelling projecting the course of the pandemic too pessimistic, or were the projections justified? Matt Keeling tells our colleagues from SBIDER about the COVID models that fed into public policy.
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More than maths: Understanding infectious diseases in care homes
Some diseases spread far more quickly in care homes and other settings with vulnerable people. How can maths help? And what help does maths need?
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Climate change and ready meals: Challenges for epidemiologists
Invading mosquitoes and food poisoning in the production chain — there are a lot of questions epidemiologists address in their research.
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Learning from COVID: How good was the UK's vaccination strategy?
Was vaccinating vulnerable people first a good choice? Hindsight allows us to assess this question.
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On the mathematical frontline: The podcast
Hear from the epidemiologists who have devoted their lives to fighting the pandemic.