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cord-296388-ayfdsn07	Maziarz, Mariusz	Agent‐based modelling for SARS‐CoV‐2 epidemic prediction and intervention assessment: A methodological appraisal	2020-08-21		.txt	text/plain	4560	240	41	CONCLUSIONS: Given this, we claim that the best epidemiological ABMs are models of actual mechanisms and deliver both mechanistic and difference‐making evidence. While the 2009 swine flu pandemic was the motivation for constructing AceMod, the model was not intended to accurately represent the outbreak of the H1N1 strain, but rather as a generalized framework for studying how an infectious disease spreads through the social interactions of Australians. In cases like the current pandemic, effective interventions may best be aimed at the societal level and therefore mechanistic models that integrate social factors, human behaviour and biological aspects (something that the ABM discussed here attempts to do) are arguably best suited for providing understanding and suggesting policy decisions. 10 Our claim that AceMod calibrated for SARS-CoV-2 bears similarity to the actual mechanism of the epidemic depends on the accuracy of the empirical results used as an input for this model. Agent-based modelling for SARS-CoV-2 epidemic prediction and intervention assessment: A methodological appraisal	./cache/cord-296388-ayfdsn07.txt	./txt/cord-296388-ayfdsn07.txt