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Coronavirus: Have we been right to base our response on data models?

Artist Lionel Stanhope paints a mural in Ladywell depicting the Supper at Emmaus by Caravaggio with added protective gloves, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), London, Britain, May 5, 2020. REUTERS/Hannah McKay - RC2AIG94UANW

Do the numbers give us the full picture? Image: REUTERS/Hannah McKay

Nina Schwalbe
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations; Principal Visiting Fellow, United Nations University International Institute for Global Health
​​​​​​​Nathaniel Hupert
Associate Professor , Cornell University's Weill Medical College
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