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Day: February 22, 2019

Posted on February 22, 2019February 24, 2019

The Problem of Eliminating Measles

I would like to draw attention to a recent blog post by Professor Raina MacIntyre of  the University of New South Wales (with whom I have occasionally collaborated). MacIntyre points out the complexity of any attempt to eliminate measles completely partly because of how infectious it is: elementary herd immunity calculations show that the required minimum …

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