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Science Fights the Coronavirus
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
English - March 24, 2020 16:45 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 558 ratingsTechnology News Tech News intelligence automation economics economy future government robots science society technology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The exponential growth of COVID-19 is threatening to bring down the world economy. To understand the pandemic, Azeem Azhar chats with professor Yaneer Bar-Yam, President of the New England Complex Systems Institute, who worked on the response to Ebola with pioneering complex-systems mathematics.
In this conversation, they discuss:
Why we need to crush, rather than flatten, the curve.
What lessons the Ebola outbreak offers us for dealing with COVID-19.
What complexity mathematics offers beyond traditional epidemiological modelling.
Further reading:
“A Better Way: Building Capacity, Adaptation and Resilience” (Exponential View, 2020)
End Coronavirus: Map, Guidelines, Community (2020)
“Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance” (Tomas Pueyo, 2020)
“Transition to Extinction: Pandemics in a Connected World” (Yaneer Bar-Yam, 2016)
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Note: a previous version of this episode included an excerpted conversation with Dr. Adam Kucharski, author of “The Rules of Contagion: How Things Spread – and Why They Stop.” That excerpt has now been removed, and the full conversation with Dr. Kucharski can be found here: https://www.exponentialview.co/p/-modeling-the-pandemic.