COVID-19 computer modelling may have led to dire decisions
“However, the models are only as good as the assumptions that they are based upon. They may not account for many things such as seasonality, details of vaccine rollout individual behaviour. “Nor can they account for our values and culture for example that people have different tolerances of risk. There are always values in politics and these need to be explained and it needs to be clear how the government has made their decisions.” Dr House, a reader in applied mathematics at the University of Manchester added: “It’s no good waving curves and graphs at people - if these only show co...
Source: express.co.uk