id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-332729-f1e334g0 Shah, Nirav R. An Impact-Oriented Approach to Epidemiological Modeling 2020-09-21 .txt text/plain 1638 115 52 5 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently added policy development as a sixth item in its list of the major tasks of epidemiology in public health, but there remains no mention of the impact on the general public. For instance, the Covid Act Now (CAN) model is fully open-source, along with its data inputs (available at https://covidactnow.org). Both the New York Times and Georgetown University's Center for Global Health, Science, and Security (available at https://covidamp.org/) have begun to collect data on COVID-19 policies by state and effective dates, including shelter-in-place and reopening orders. These eight considerations may enable COVID-19 data and models to become better harbingers of actionable, behavior-changing, and even life-saving information; to bridge the gap between scientific public health expertise and mainstream, layperson Are the data and model's mechanisms and data sources publicly available for fact-checking and validation? ./cache/cord-332729-f1e334g0.txt ./txt/cord-332729-f1e334g0.txt