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Finding a way out of lockdown
Mathematical models can help the nation return to (some sort of) normality.
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How do you calculate herd immunity?
Listen to Plus editor Rachel Thomas explain herd immunity on the Guardian Weekly Science podcast.
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The problem with combining R ratios
We explore why you need to be extremely careful when combining the reproduction ratios of a disease in different settings, such as hospitals and the community.
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The virus
In this podcast we explore the famous curve, talk about how to communicate science in a crisis, and explain the maths of herd immunity in one minute.
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Maths in a minute: "R nought" and herd immunity
What is herd immunity and what does it have to do with a number called R0?
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A call to action on COVID-19
An urgent call has gone out to the scientific modelling community to help fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Two Cambridge mathematicians are helping to lead the charge.
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How can maths fight a pandemic?
How do mathematical models of COVID-19 work and should we believe them? We talk to an epidemiologist, who has been working flat out to inform the government, to find out more.
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Communicating the coronavirus crisis
David Spiegelhalter, expert in risk and evidence communication, tells us how well the UK government has done so far communicating about Covid-19.
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Squashing the curve?
A study into Covid-19 suggests that flattening the curve will take longer and harder measures than previously hoped.
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Fighting the coronavirus
As the world prepares for the worst, we explore the maths that can help us stop a pandemic.
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A very useful pandemic
Cambridge researchers, the BBC, and thousands of citizen scientists have created a revolutionary infectious disease data set.
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Spaghetti, chance and typhoid
In 1915 a cook in California accidentally infected 93 people with typhoid. Over 100 years on mathematicians shed light on a long-standing mystery surrounding this and other outbreaks of infectious diseases.