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Group news: After half a year under revision, our article on the use of the Gompertz Function for short-time predictions of #COVID-19 spreading has just appeared in #PLOSCompBio: Empirical model for short-time prediction of COVID-19 spreading dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa… 1/
We are happy it sees the light. It was a huge effort to set up the method for all of us: @CatalaMarti @kilocurie @CodinaLopez @pjcardona14 @prats_clara with the impressive push of Sergio Alonso @SergioAlonsoMun at the beginning of the pandemia. 2/
We had calibrated the method with the available data form Chinese provinces and applied to a large set of countries around the world, where we have regularly added in our web page the predictions at different levels. 3/ 
So a few of us (@unhlangothi, @adantro, PeterLatham, @TPVogels, @JosephRaimondo) wrote a perspective piece for #PLOSCompBio entitled "Think: Theory for Africa" dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…
here are some of the points
here are some of the points
"we call for greater efforts to empower Africans to join the global neuroscience community and argue that the subfield of computational neuroscience is the ideal vehicle to do so"
