articleNew England Journal of MedicineMay 15, 2020Closed access

Wrong but Useful — What Covid-19 Epidemiologic Models Can and Cannot Tell Us

Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy

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Wrong but Useful Mechanistic epidemiologic models are designed to help us systematically examine the implications of various assumptions about a highly nonlinear process that is hard to predict usi...

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  • Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
  • 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
  • Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
  • Process (computing)
  • Computer science
  • Data science
  • Econometrics
  • Economics
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