Our director Felix Otto and Professor Silvia Schöneburg-Lehnert (Mathematical Institute, Leipzig University) have started a short video series (in German) with the aim of providing a basic introduction for some mathematical terminology that comes up in the news coverage regarding Corona.
The following concepts are explained in the series:
exponential growth and doubling time
basic reproduction number
effective reproduction number
transmission probabilities
chain of infection
flatten the curve
second wave
impact of quarantine restrictions
herd immunity
infectiousness: parameters from observations
estimation of the effective reproduction number
The playlist containing all videos in embedded below, alternatively you can watch it on our YouTube channel.
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