NEJM Interview: Dr. Caroline Buckee on the uses — and limitations — of epidemiologic modeling to predict the spread of Covid-19.

Dr. Caroline Buckee is the associate director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. I. Holmdahl and C. Buckee. Wrong but Useful — What Covid-19 Epidemiologic Models Can and Cannot Tell Us. N Engl J Med 2020;383:303-305. E.C. Schneider. Failing the Test — The Tragic Data Gap Undermining the U.S. Pandemic Response. N Engl J Med 2020;383:299-302.