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20th April 2020 - Link Blog

Estimating COVID-19's Rt in Real-Time. I’m not qualified to comment on the mathematical approach, but this is a really nice example of a Jupyter Notebook explanatory essay by Kevin Systrom.

Posted 20th April 2020 at 3:06 pm

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