Show Notes
Crystal Balls and Coronavirus - with Hannah Fry
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Dr Hannah Fry made a film two years ago which predicted the coronavirus pandemic with chilling accuracy.
Dr Hannah Fry's website - links to all her stuff
The BBC Contagion special on iPlayer
If it doesn't work on iPlayer, this is a version I found on YouTube!?
Numberphile video about the SIR curve with Ben Sparks
Numberphile discusses coronavirus mathematics with Kit Yates
False Positives on Numberphile with Lisa Goldberg
PAPER: Contacts in context: large-scale setting-specific social mixing matrices from the BBC Pandemic project
PAPER: Contagion! The BBC Four Pandemic – The model behind the documentary
BBC Horizon Coronavirus Special - the more recent film Hannah made with the Beeb
RI Christmas Lectures 2019: Secrets and lies
Mathematician/epidemiologist Adam Kucharski on Twitter
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