S1E21: Reducing the toll of COVID-19 in Africa: What can be done?

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S1E21: Reducing the toll of COVID-19 in Africa: What can be done?

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Apr 21, 2020

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Is Africa the new COVID-19 epicentre? Professor Francesco Checchi of LSHTM discusses his latest paper, using mathematical modelling to look at what can be done in low-resource settings across the continent, and how to protect the most vulnerable populations without the human and economic costs of total lockdown.

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Apr 21, 2020

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S1E21: Reducing the toll of COVID-19 in Africa: What can be done?

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