Citation: Christian Costris-Vas, Elissa J. Schwartz, Robert Smith?. Predicting COVID-19 using past pandemics as a guide: how reliable were mathematical models then, and how reliable will they be now?[J]. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2020, 17(6): 7502-7518. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2020383
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