Childs authors paper
Meghan Childs, mathematical modeling Ph.D. student, is the lead author of the paper “Assessing parameter sensitivity in a university campus COVID-19 model with vaccinations,” published in the journal Infectious Disease Modelling. Together with advisor and co-author Tony Wong, assistant professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences, Childs’ work implements a new model to account for vaccinations against COVID-19 and examines how this immunity affects disease dynamics on a college campus.
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