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Epidemiologist

Overview

The Disease Detective.

What is it?

They use Statistics and Exponential Functions to track how viruses spread and how to stop them.

History

Dr. John Snow used a map (Coordinate Geometry) to find the source of a Cholera outbreak in London in 1854.

Key Idea

R-naught (R0) is a mathematical term for how contagious a virus is.