Uploaded April 2020 | Updated September 2026, 9 hours ago

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What are the basics behind modelling a pandemic? We will talk about a simple model which forms the basis of many models which are being used to study outbreak. Of course, COVID-19 is a thing at the moment and that makes this a bit more topical but the video is about the modelling, not the outbreak.

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