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Final Exam: Running the Math on Pfizer

Final Exam: Running the Math on Pfizer

A COVID vaccine might be close, but we're not done yet.

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Carter Williams
Nov 11, 2020
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Final Exam: Running the Math on Pfizer
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Here is a timely final exam question. (For those that did not take math in college, this is a reasonable final exam question from a class like Calc 3:DiffQ)...

The world is exposed to a global pandemic.

How do we get to a vaccine?

In the base case of 60% mask utilization and general social distancing practices, the Ro for COVID-19 is 2.5 (assumption, the j…

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