Dangerous Exponents: A Covid-19 Podcast
Science:Life Sciences
Co-hosts Jeff Sackmann and Carl Bialik explore the numbers behind superspreader events. What makes an event a superspreader, how do we know the extent of the spread, and will society change permanently to stop them?
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Episode reading list:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/10/nation/biogen-conference-boston-likely-linked-330000-covid-19-cases-worldwide-researchers-say/
https://gijn.org/2020/10/26/tracking-the-superspreader-events-driving-the-covid-19-pandemic/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/world/asia/india-coronavirus-shramik-specials.html
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/10/22/trumps-campaign-made-stops-nationwide-then-coronavirus-cases-surged/3679534001/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/09/08/worst-case-scenerios-sturgis-rally-may-be-linked-266000-coronavirus-cases-study-says/
https://slate.com/technology/2020/09/sturgis-rally-covid19-explosion-paper.html
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-soccer-match-that-kicked-off-italys-coronavirus-disaster-11585752012
Hygiene Theater and Absolutism
The Other Vaccines
Which Places Are Handling the Pandemic Best? How Can We Tell?
Masking Up
Everything Is A Tradeoff
How Can We Speed Up The Vaccine Rollout?
Virus Mutations And The Sluggish Vaccine Rollouts
How Will We Get To Herd Immunity, And How Will We Know We've Gotten There?
Back To School: Is The Return To Classrooms Worth It?
All About Vaccines: How We Got Them, And Who Should Get Them First
How R and K Add Up To Dangerous Exponential Pandemic Growth
What Should We Do About Thanksgiving?
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