The values and limitations of mathematical modelling to COVID-19 in the world: a follow up report
Tang, Yuanji ; Tang, Sherry ; Wang, Shixia
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We previously described a mathematical model to simulate the course of the COVID-19 pandemic and try to predict how this outbreak might evolve in the following two months when the pandemic cases will drop significantly. Our original paper prepared in March 2020 analyzed the outbreaks of COVID-19 in the US and its selected states to identify the rise, peak, and decrease of cases within a given geographic population, as well as a rough calculation of accumulated total cases in this population from the beginning to the end of June 2020. The current report will describe how well the later actual trend from March to June fit our model and prediction. Similar analyses are also conducted to include countries other than the US. From such a wide global data analysis, our results demonstrated that different US states and countries showed dramatically different patterns of pandemic trend. The values and limitations of our modelling are discussed.
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Tang Y, Tang S, Wang S. The values and limitations of mathematical modelling to COVID-19 in the world: a follow up report. Emerg Microbes Infect. 2020 Dec;9(1):2465-2473. doi: 10.1080/22221751.2020.1843973. PMID: 33121387; PMCID: PMC7671649. Link to article on publisher's site