The BMJ's video: COVID 19: KNOWN UNKNOWNS - Modelling

Join Dr Fiona Godlee of The BMJ and Professor George Davey Smith of Bristol University and the MRC, plus their invited guests from leading institutions in the US, UK, Germany, Norway, Sweden, India, Hong Kong, Gabon and New Zealand, as they discuss many aspects of the covid pandemic. Modelling offers a way to understand the progression of the pandemic, but is inherently uncertain - necessarily based on assumptions and incomplete data, how has modelling helped and hindered us in our fight against covid-19 Taking part are; (Chair: Allyson Pollock, clinical professor of public health, Newcastle University) Effects of interventions: Adam Kucharski, associate professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Implications of heterogeneity: Gabriela Gomes, professor, mathematics and statistics, University of Strathclyde Long term prospects: Marc Lipsitch, professor of epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA