Meet Alyssa Yu, the 17-year-old Maryland student who built a mathematical model for what happens when 2 interacting infections spread at once and how vaccination could target the resulting hot spots
- Alyssa Yu (Poolesville High School, Poolesville, MD)A 17-year-old student from Maryland has developed a new mathematical framework to predict how multiple infectious diseases interact and spread through connected populations at the same time.
- Alyssa Yu, a senior at Poolesville High School in Montgomery County, created the computer model to address a major gap in public health forecasting.
- Most existing disease models track one pathogen at a time and do not fully account for what happens when several outbreaks occur together.
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- Alyssa Yu (Poolesville High School, Poolesville, MD)A 17-year-old student from Maryland has developed a new mathematical framework to predict how multiple infectious diseases interact and spread through connected populations at the same time.
- Alyssa Yu, a senior at Poolesville High School in Montgomery County, created the computer model to address a major gap in public health forecasting.
- Most existing disease models track one pathogen at a time and do not fully account for what happens when several outbreaks occur together.
Sources: Times of India