The Evolution of Infectious Diseases w/Justin Meyer

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Lecture 14 – Applying SIR Models: Predicting Pathogen Spread and Virulence Evolution

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5/22/2020; 83 minutes

UC San Diego professor of biology Justin Meyer, who specializes in infectious disease research presents his course The Evolution of Infectious Diseases with special attention to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the COVID-19 disease and its pandemic spread throughout the world. In this lecture – how SIR models can predict the spread and behavior of pathogens. Recorded on 05/19/2020.

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Links & Resources

• COVID-19 Projections
  • COVID-19 Projections
• Daily Coronavirus Statistics
  • Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center
  • Worldometers – Daily worldwide coronavirus statistics
• General
  • How some cities ‘flattened the curve’ during the 1918 flu pandemic
  • Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu
• Pandemic Spread Modeling
  • Developing an Intuition for Pandemics
• Realtime Coronavirus Phylogenetic Map
  • Genomic epidemiology of novel coronavirus
• Updated influenza-like Illness Trends
  • US Health Weather Map