Describing a landscape we are yet discovering

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!”.