# 25: Pandemic Panic (Epidemiology)

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Podcast: [Breaking Math Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/breaking-math-podcast-325661)
Published: 2018-04-13T17:06:26+00:00
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## Resource

The spectre of disease causes untold mayhem, anguish, and desolation. The extent to which this spectre has yielded its power, however, has been massively curtailed in the past century. To understand how this has been accomplished, we must understand the science and mathematics of epidemiology. Epidemiology is the field of study related to how disease unfolds in a population. So how has epidemiology improved our lives? What have we learned from it? And what can we do to learn more from it?

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