Opinion: What models can and cannot tell us about COVID-19

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Jul 14;117(28):16092-16095. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2011542117. Epub 2020 Jun 24.

Authors

Alexander F Siegenfeld^{1

2}, Nassim N Taleb³, Yaneer Bar-Yam²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139; asiegenf@mit.edu.
² New England Complex Systems Institute, Cambridge, MA 02139.
³ Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, Brooklyn, NY 11201.

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MeSH terms

Behavior
Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Coronavirus Infections / transmission
Data Accuracy
Humans
Models, Statistical*
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
Pneumonia, Viral / transmission
SARS-CoV-2
Uncertainty