Carnegie Mellon University: To Predict an Epidemic, Evolution Can't Be Ignored
March 13, 2020
March 13, 2020
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, March 13 -- Carnegie Mellon University issued the following news on March 11:
When scientists try to predict the spread of something across populations -- anything from a coronavirus to misinformation -- they use complex mathematical models to do so. Typically, they will study the first few steps in which the subject spreads, and use that rate to project how far and wide the spread will go.
But what happens if a pathogen mutates, or information . . .
When scientists try to predict the spread of something across populations -- anything from a coronavirus to misinformation -- they use complex mathematical models to do so. Typically, they will study the first few steps in which the subject spreads, and use that rate to project how far and wide the spread will go.
But what happens if a pathogen mutates, or information . . .