Thread by @filipbabovic, Really good explainer on the complexity of corona:https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-its-so-freaking-hard-to-make-a-good-covid-19-model/ More here:https://medium.com/data-for-science/epidemic-modeling-101-or-why-your-covid19-exponential-fits-ar [...]

Filip Babovic

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Really good explainer on the complexity of corona:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-its-so-freaking-hard-to-make-a-good-covid-19-model/

More here: https://medium.com/data-for-science/epidemic-modeling-101-or-why-your-covid19-exponential-fits-are-wrong-97aa50c55f8

Over the past few weeks, a terrible affliction has been spreading across the world. Otherwise healthy and productive members of society…

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/04/coronavirus-models-arent-supposed-be-right/609271/

That’s not what they’re for.

and for the agent-based nerds: http://smaldino.com/wp/covid-19-modeling-the-flattening-of-the-curve/

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