Ideas worth spreading

Adam Kucharski on what should (and shouldn't) worry us about the coronavirus

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Infectious disease expert Adam Kucharski uses mathematical models to help the world understand how diseases like Ebola and Zika spread -- and how they can be controlled. As the threat of COVID-19 continues to rise, he gives us a necessary perspective on its transmission, how governments have responded and what needs to change in order to end the pandemic. (Recorded March 11, 2020. Audio only)

Infectious disease expert Adam Kucharski uses mathematical models to help the world understand how diseases like Ebola and Zika spread -- and how they can be controlled. As the threat of COVID-19 continues to rise, he gives us a necessary perspective on its transmission, how governments have responded and what needs to change in order to end the pandemic. (Recorded March 11, 2020. Audio only)

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Adam Kucharski

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TED Senior Fellow Adam Kucharski is creating new mathematical and computational models to understand how epidemics like Zika and Ebola spread -- and how they can be controlled.

Chris Anderson

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After a long career in journalism and publishing, Chris Anderson became the curator of the TED Conference in 2002 and has developed it as a platform for identifying and disseminating ideas worth spreading.