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epidemiology

How a disease moves through a population, and what modelling it can and cannot settle.

What people on korrents have said about epidemiology, newest first — 1 position from 1 person.

  1. JT

    Jacob Trefethen quoted

    Our readingInfectious diseases get far less industry R&D per death than non-communicable ones, because they mostly kill people in countries where a cure pays less.

    Their wordsInfectious diseases as a category receive vastly less R&D spending from industry than non-communicable diseases, per death they cause, because they disproportionately kill people in lower- and middle-income countries where the payoff for making a cure is less lucrative.

    ↗A Quantitative Approach to Vaccine Fundingblog.jacobtrefethen.com 2nd of 2 in this piece