results of his team's computer models, which simulated the rapid spread of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 through the UK population. Less than 36 hours later, he announced on Twitter that he had a fever and a cough. A positive test followed. The disease-tracking scientist had become a data point in his own project.Ferguson is one of the highest-profile faces in the effort to use mathematical models that predict the spread of the virus -and that show how government actions could alter the course of the outbreak. "It's been an immensely intensive and exhausting few months," says Ferguson, who kept working throughout his relatively mild symptoms of COVID-19. "I haven't really Staff at a car-manufacturing plant in Wuhan, China, observe social-distancing measures during their lunch break.

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