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I got together with Adam Kucharski, a mathematician and epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, to discuss the state of the outbreak. Adam is actively working on modeling the spread of the virus and figuring out how to respond.
Adam is the author of The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop which explores the underlying principles behind contagion.
This conversation is available to members of EV right away (the audio is raw, so forgive a lack of editing 😉) and in it we discuss:
What are the key drivers of epidemic curves—and how predictions are put together?
How behavioural changes affect modelling and prediction?
When is a population ‘virus-free’?
What levels of testing are sufficient to tackle the current crisis?
The conversation is super raw—but I wanted people to hear i…
