1 Associate dean for faculty affairs and administration in the Virginia Tech College of Science, and a professor in the Virginia Tech Department of Statistics.
2 Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the College for Public Health & Social Justice at Saint Louis University, and distinguished research professor emeritus in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
Teams of epidemiological and medical "detectives" are working to get a coronavirus pandemic under control. Ronald D. Fricker, Jr and Steven E. Rigdon walk us through a typical investigation.