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6,000 coronavirus cases per day? 8,000? OSU researchers on forecasting pandemics

BY: - March 30, 2020

Since the new coronavirus was first detected in Ohio, state Department of Health Director Dr. Amy Acton repeatedly emphasizes the need to “flatten the curve” at regular afternoon pandemic briefings.  Meanwhile, a team at Ohio State University’s Infectious Disease Institute turns mounds of discrete data points into models that try to predict how many people […]