Math Modelers in Canada Say Lack of Data Makes Flattening the Curve Predictions Difficult

An ambulance in a file photo. Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press

When Caroline Colijn sees the daily numbers of new cases of COVID-19 in Canada, she looks for certain things.

As a disease modelling expert, she says the effects of the measures we’re taking today to limit the spread of the CCP virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus, may not appear for weeks.