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004 = Quarantine Kits and Contagion Calculus

A Problem Squared

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The Problem of the Maths of Infection

Infographic shows how many people are infected by a coronavirus. After five days, the infection rate is just half of 1.25 and after 30 days it's 2.5%. But this does not make sense because you cannot affect anyone less than a human. So we ask our guest to help us work out what these numbers mean.

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