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Coronavirus modelling — boost developing world capacity

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  1. Kaveri Iychettira

    1. Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

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    1. Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

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Computational models of the likely spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus have been instrumental in guiding governments’ strategies to limit disease transmission and control the current public-health crisis. In developing countries, where the pandemic is potentially at its most dangerous and costly, we call for governments to work with academic institutions to build and sustain modelling capacity.

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Nature 581, 384 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01564-6

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