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Of Viruses And Vaccines - Peter Doherty

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The Importance of Epidemiological Models in Biomedical Research

The main place to be hanging on is both Sydney and Melbourne. We're not seeing an enormous spike from the Black Lives Matters demonstrations, I think we would have seen them already. What we've always been concerned with it is getting established in remote communities and rural areas where people might not get onto it fast. So one of the big jobs has been going on with the lockdown. The virus can just ramp up very, very quickly. It's got a reproductive value about two and a half. That is one person will infect two and ahalf other people on average. And so they had this outbreak. They did contact tracing. They traced relatives that trace contacts. But it, that we think

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