Sunetra Gupta

Sunetra Gupta is professor of Theoretical Epidemiology, university of Oxford.

On Sage’s Covid models

From our UK edition

In the confusion that has arisen from the demonstrable inability of a certain type of mathematical model to predict the time course of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, many have taken to reciting – with a variable mixture of glee and sympathy – that ‘all models are wrong but some are useful’. I have never been comfortable