What The COVID-19 Epidemic Models Are Not Telling You

Author(s): Gabriel dos Santos Gonçalves

Originally published on Towards AI.

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The story we know until this point is the following: The SARS-Cov-2 is a highly transmissible virus causing the respiratory disease COVID-19. It originated in the Wuhan province of China in the last trimester of 2019 and has spread to virtually every country on the planet. The transmission is mainly between personal contact, and until this date, we have identified more than 2.4 million people infected with the virus, with deaths passing 160.000.

Epidemiological models have been developed to estimate the impact of the pandemic over different countries. The most cited model was developed… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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