Sign inPassword recoveryRecover your passwordyour emailWhen I was asked to calculate the total volume of SARS-CoV-2 in the world for the BBC Radio 4 show “,” I will admit I had no idea what the answer would be. My wife suggested it would be the size of an Olympic swimming pool. “Either that or a teaspoon,” she said. “It’s usually one or the other with these sorts of questions.”So how to set about calculating an approximation of what the total volume really is? Fortunately, I have some form with these sorts of large-scale back-of-the-envelope estimations, having carried out a number of them...…Sign inPassword recoveryRecover your passwordyour emailWhen I was asked to calculate the total volume of SARS-CoV-2 in the world for the BBC Radio 4 show “,” I will admit I had no idea what the answer would be. My wife suggested it would be the size of an Olympic swimming pool. “Either that or a teaspoon,” she said. “It’s usually one or the other with these sorts of questions.”So how to set about calculating an approximation of what the total volume really is? Fortunately, I have some form with these sorts of large-scale back-of-the-envelope estimations, having carried out a number of them...WW…
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