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Professor James McCaw
Professor, Mathematical Biology, School of Mathematics and Statistics & Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne
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Health & Medicine
What maths can tell us about the spread of the new coronavirus
Mathematical modelling gave us an early warning about the size of the coronavirus outbreak – now, researchers are doing the numbers daily to work out how the virus could spread
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Health & Medicine
Forecasting flu outbreaks
New software based on statistical probability principles is helping forecast our flu season, and could also identify the level of threat of a bioterrorist attack