March 24, 2020

Science Fights the Coronavirus

40 minutes

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.

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