Provide a “reference scenario”. |
Track the current status of the pandemic. |
Estimate the pandemic’s dynamics. |
Generate short-term predictions (“nowcasting”). |
Generate long-term predictions. |
Determine ahead of time the need for infrastructural changes in healthcare facilities to accommodate predicted influx of severe cases. |
Answer specific questions. |
Understand the infection-disease-hospitalization-death cycle. |
Assess interventions such as lockdowns or vaccination. |