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Risk and COVID-19
Perhaps the most difficult and unfamiliar feature of the coronavirus pandemic is how the associated risk is rising rapidly through time. We…
Containment of COVID-19 Is the Best-Case Scenario
Dr. Tedros Adhonom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), has insisted that containment of COVID-19 is feasible…
Economic Impact of COVID-19 Will Be Far Worse th...
Imagine being seated for eleven hours on a plane next to a passenger wearing an anti-viral face mask, and with a hand sanitizer clipped to his…
The Coronavirus Outbreak: Part Two – Self-Isolat...
The village of Eyam in Derbyshire, central England, was unlucky to discover that the pandemic, then raging 150 miles (226 kilometers) to the…
The Coronavirus Outbreak: Part One – Modeling “S...
Since 2017, in modeling the threat from wildfire on communities in California, the significant new RMS innovation has been in capturing the…
Coronavirus Event Cancellation Risk
In the spring of 2003, RMS pioneered quantitative event cancellation risk analysis with a study for FIFA in respect of the 2006 World Cup in…