Episode Details

Epidemiologist Adam Kucharski joins TWiV to discuss SARS-CoV-2, including R0, incubation period, herd immunity, asymptomatic infection, superspreaders, children as drivers of pandemics, and how this one will end.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker

Guest: Adam Kucharski

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Links for this episode

• The Rules of Contagion (Amazon affiliate link)
• Overdispersion in SARS-CoV-2 transmission (Wellcome Open Res)
• Sorrento Therapeutics test
• In vitro diagnostics EUAs (FDA)
• Letters read on TWiV 652
• Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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