Gabriela Gomes: Why Herd Immunity May Be at Hand
Our guest is Gabriela Gomes, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Strathclyde. She specializes in population dynamics and the modeling of herd immunity and her recent work suggests covid-19 herd immunity may be at hand. We discuss how herd immunity thresholds are estimated and why she thinks classic models are flawed and must incorporate a measure of variation in individual susceptibility.
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Gabriela Gomes, PhD: Twitter and website
Gomes et al. (May 2020 paper), "Individual Variation in Susceptibility or Exposure to SARS-CoV-2 Lowers the Herd Immunity Threshold" in MedRxiv…
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