New video: COVID19 in numbers: R0, the case fatality rate and why we need to flatten the curve

Pleuni Pennings, Senay Yitbarek and Brandon Ogbunu are asking all mayor and presidents to help reduce R0 for the SARS-CoV2 / COVID19 outbreak by canceling events and washing your hands.

Brandon Ogbunu (Brown University),  Senay Yitbarek (UC Berkeley) and I (Pleuni Pennings, SFSU) made a video about the two numbers most often used to describe the new coronavirus outbreak: R0 and the case fatality rate. We also talk about why we should and how we can “flatten the curve.”

Feel free to share, use as homework assignment, show in the classroom! Ideal for college level biology and calculus classes.

 

Translations kindly contributed by the following people:

Dutch translation by Alex Verkade.
Spanish translation by Berenice Chavez and Cecilia Hernandez.
Portuguese translation by Murillo Rodrigues and Luiza Ostrowski.

The video is also on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-3xZVhFhP8w

Download the slides here: COVID19_FlatteningTheCurveSlidesMarch172020

Using phylogenies to understand the novel coronavirus outbreak

I made a video about the use of phylogenies to understand the current coronavirus outbreak. I hope it is useful for your class if you teach genetics, evolution or virology – feel free to show in your lecture or assign as homework.  On the Vimeo website, you can download the video.

 

Link to Nextstrain.org

Slides: Phylogenies and the Corona Virus Outbreak

Link to original video on Vimeo (which you can download): https://vimeo.com/395051566

Link to Trevor Bedford’s website: https://bedford.io/team/trevor-bedford/

Link to the original tweet I refer to in the video: https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1233970271318503426?s=20

Link to blog post by Trevor Bedford on same topic: https://bedford.io/blog/ncov-cryptic-transmission/