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Abstract:
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, very little was known about both
the disease and the virus that caused it. As more information became available, the
public awareness reached unprecedented scales; epidemiological terms such as incidence or reproduction number infected our daily conversations. Consequently, high
pressure fell on the shoulders of policymakers, who were expected to point us to
the way out of this global health threat. However, whom do we ask when we all are
still learning? We would say, “let us build a model!”. In their manuscript, Jahn and
coauthors present a comprehensive overview of models and their role in evidence-based decision-making. They categorize different models according to their purpose
and illustrate how they have served different purposes in the context of the ongoing
pandemic.
