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| Adam Kucharski, mathematician at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Tom Jamieson for The New York Times |
A mathematician who studies the spread of disease explains some of the figures that keep popping up in coronavirus news.
Adam Kucharski studies how diseases spread, but he’s not handling viruses in the lab or treating sick people in the hospital. He’s a mathematician at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and he uses math to understand outbreaks of diseases like Ebola, SARS, influenza and now Covid-19. His goal is to design better ways to control outbreaks.
