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Epidemiologist

The Hook

The Disease Detective.

What is it?

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

Time Travel (History)

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

Cheat Code

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