Predictive Mathematical Models of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Underlying Principles and Value of Projections

JAMA. 2020 May 19;323(19):1893-1894. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.6585.

Authors

Nicholas P Jewell^{1

2}, Joseph A Lewnard², Britta L Jewell³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
² Division of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley.
³ MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Abdul Latif Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics, and Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.

PMID: 32297897
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2020.6585

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MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus*
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Coronavirus Infections / mortality
Forecasting
Humans
Models, Theoretical*
Pandemics*
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
Pneumonia, Viral / mortality
SARS-CoV-2
United States / epidemiology