How accurate were early expert predictions on COVID-19, and how did they compare to the public?
05 May 2021Who made more accurate predictions about the course of the COVID-19 pandemic – experts or the public? A study from the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge has found that experts such as epidemiologists and statisticians made far more accurate predictions than the public, but both groups substantially underestimated the true extent of the pandemic.