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Caution Warranted: Using the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) Model for Predicting the Course of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation model for predicting the course of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has attracted considerable attention, including from the U.S. government. According to the authors from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the appearance of certainty of model estimates is seductive when the world is desperate to know what lies ahead, but caution is warranted regarding the validity and usefulness of the mode projections for policymakers. Read the full text: http://annals.org/aim/article/doi/10.7326/M20-1565.
Media contacts: A PDF for this article is not yet available. Please click the link to read full text. The lead author Nicholas P. Jewel, PhD, can be reached at jewell@berkeley.edu.
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Annals of Internal Medicine