Can you solve it? A maths of a hypothetical new Covid variant

How would it spread?The UK ’s autumn Covid-19 booster programme is underway, with approximately 26 million people eligible to receive a jab over the next few months.Today ’s puzzle imagines a hypothetical new variant, and asks the solver to think about how it would spread. It was set by Professor Adam Kucharski of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, one of the UK’s leading epidemiologists.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - Category: Science Authors: Tags: Mathematics Education Science Source Type: news