What models can and cannot tell us about COVID-19
Alexander F. Siegenfeld, Nassim N. Taleb, Yaneer Bar‐Yam
Abstract
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has already claimed more than 470,000 deaths worldwide at the time of this writing (1) and is likely to claim many more. Models can help us determine how to stop the spread of the virus.
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