Prof Julia Gog (my former Director of Studies @QueensCam@Cambridge_Uni), who specialises in using #maths to study infectious disease, on the role of academics in helping to control the spread of a #pandemic like #COVIDー19 https://t.co/UOtpMDUWoo @_CIRM
Tough choices for governments in managing COVID-19.
With apologies to @olivierveran here are some sketches which I think illustrate options. We are plotting number of cases on y against time on x.
Firstly the do nothing option is the blue curve in this graph.
I should be qualified to comment on the covid-19 pandemic. I'm a computational/system biologist working on infectious diseases and have spent five years in a world class 'pandemic response modelling' unit. In this thread, I will summarise what I believe I (don't) know. (1/12)