Joshua Loftus

Is the new variant of Covid really more transmissible?

It’s vital to control the spread of the virus. But is the latest surge due to a new strain?

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Joshua Loftus
Joshua Loftus is Assistant Professor of Statistics at New York University. He is a former research fellow at the Alan Turing Institute at the University of Cambridge and will shortly move to the London School of Economics.

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