Don't gamble the COVID-19 response on ecological hypotheses

Affiliations

¹ Center for Global Health Science and Security, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA. colin.carlson@georgetown.edu.
² Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Bergen, Norway.
³ Department of Ecology & Multidisciplinary Institute for Environment Studies "Ramon Margalef", University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
⁴ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway.
⁵ Department of Mathematical Sciences and Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.

Comment

Colin J Carlson et al. Nat Ecol Evol. 2020 Sep.

. 2020 Sep;4(9):1155.

doi: 10.1038/s41559-020-1279-2.

¹ Center for Global Health Science and Security, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA. colin.carlson@georgetown.edu.
² Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Bergen, Norway.
³ Department of Ecology & Multidisciplinary Institute for Environment Studies "Ramon Margalef", University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
⁴ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway.
⁵ Department of Mathematical Sciences and Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.

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Species distribution models are inappropriate for COVID-19.
Carlson CJ, Chipperfield JD, Benito BM, Telford RJ, O'Hara RB. Carlson CJ, et al. Nat Ecol Evol. 2020 Jun;4(6):770-771. doi: 10.1038/s41559-020-1212-8. Nat Ecol Evol. 2020. PMID: 32377007 No abstract available.
Ecological and epidemiological models are both useful for SARS-CoV-2.
Araújo MB, Mestre F, Naimi B. Araújo MB, et al. Nat Ecol Evol. 2020 Sep;4(9):1153-1154. doi: 10.1038/s41559-020-1246-y. Nat Ecol Evol. 2020. PMID: 32576973 No abstract available.

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