2020-04-10

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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 - http://www.hannahfry.co.uk

The BBC Contagion special on iPlayer - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p059y0p1/contagion-the-bbc-four-pandemic

If it doesn't work on iPlayer, this is a version I found on YouTube!? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmGiDUczhqQ

Numberphile video about the SIR curve with Ben Sparks - /youtube/video/k6nLfCbAzgo

Numberphile discusses coronavirus mathematics with Kit Yates - /youtube/video/5OPaDnJ3tm8

False Positives on Numberphile with Lisa Goldberg - /youtube/video/M8xlOm2wPAA

PAPER: Contacts in context: large-scale setting-specific social mixing matrices from the BBC Pandemic project - https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.16.20023754v2

PAPER: Contagion! The BBC Four Pandemic – The model behind the documentary - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436518300306

BBC Horizon Coronavirus Special - the more recent film Hannah made with the Beeb - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000h3nm/horizon-2020-coronavirus-special-part-1

RI Christmas Lectures 2019: Secrets and lies - https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/2019-secrets-and-lies

Mathematician/epidemiologist Adam Kucharski on Twitter - https://twitter.com/AdamJKucharski

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MSRI - https://www.msri.org

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