While studying Mathematics and Statistics, I have been offered the opportunity to study a wide variety of modules such as Medical Statistics and Mathematical Biology which have allowed me to gain insight into the different applications of Mathematics and Statistics. Furthermore, I was able to spend a year in Industry which helped me to develop my professional skills within a pharmaceutical company. My favourite module throughout the course was my final year project. This project allowed me to take part in research. This ran throughout the whole of my final year, and after completing a year-long placement in the pharmaceutical industry a topic in medical statistics was best suited for this. The research involved estimating the severity of Covid-19 and comparing how the severity has changed over time. With Italy being the first country in the Western Hemisphere to have a major outbreak and remaining a high-risk country at the time, I chose to investigate the severity there. During the research, I developed multiple programmes and created models which estimated the true number of cases, the future number of cases and transmissibility ratio. The findings from these programmes were than analysed in a report.