“There are no equal opportunity infectors: Epidemiological modelers must rethink our approach to inequality in infection risk”

Jon Zelner, Nina Masters, Ramya Naraharisetti, Sanyu Mojola, and Merlin Chowkwanyun write: Mathematical models have come to play a key role in global pandemic preparedness and outbreak response … However, these models have systematically failed to account for the social and structural factors which lead to socioeconomic, racial, and geographic health disparities…..