Tom Rocks Maths | Oxford Mathematician explains the effect of Vaccines on the COVID-19 Pandemic @TomRocksMaths | Uploaded 3 years ago | Updated 8 hours ago
University of Oxford Mathematician Dr Tom Crawford explains how the availability of vaccines affects our ability to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

Three main questions are answered using the SIR model for disease spread:
Q1. What is the condition for the pandemic to stop?
Q2. How many people do we need to vaccinate to reach this?
Q3. What happens if the vaccines aren't 100% effective?

Featuring Gabriel Gallardo - a Particle Physicist at the University of Oxford. Check out his channel PPPhD here: youtube.com/channel/UCuQQKnTIBh8RnhOxVflp8UA

Watch Tom explain the 'SIR Model for Disease Spread' here: youtube.com/watch?v=NKMHhm2Zbkw

Tom also looks at the effects of spatial dependence with a 'Travelling Wave SIR Model' here: youtube.com/watch?v=uSLFudKBnBI

Finally, the effects of an 'Incubation Time' for the disease are investigated here: youtube.com/watch?v=r7zKzvAS7Ig

Produced by Dr Tom Crawford at the University of Oxford with assistance from Gabriel Gallardo. Tom is an Early-Career Teaching and Outreach Fellow in Mathematics at St Edmund Hall: seh.ox.ac.uk/people/tom-crawford

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