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Here in the summer of 2020, it’s all too easy to think of epidemiology—the method used to find the causes of health outcomes and diseases in populations1—as being all COVID-19, all the time.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) define epidemiology as the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states and events in specified populations. To complete this study of “health-related states and events”, scientists use a tool called the epidemiologic triangle, or the epidemiologic triad.

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