Herd Immunity Threshold & the Vaccination Coverage Needed
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In this lesson
You calculate the herd immunity threshold of six diseases, the vaccination coverage needed with an imperfect vaccine, and the effective R at today's coverage.
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Lessons in this course
- Growth Rate & Doubling Time from Case Counts (LN + SLOPE) Locked
- From Growth Rate to R0: Generation-Interval Approximations Locked
- The SIR Model with Euler Steps: S, I, R Day by Day Locked
- Peak Timing, Peak Size & Final Size Locked
- Herd Immunity Threshold & the Vaccination Coverage Needed Locked
- Effect of Interventions: Cutting β and Flattening the Curve Locked
- SEIR: Adding a Latent Period Locked
- Fitting the Model to Data: SSE for a Few β Values Locked