Comment on "A global-scale ecological niche model to predict SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection rate", author Coro

Andrea Contina; Scott W Yanco; Allison K Pierce; Michelle DePrenger-Levin; Michael B Wunder; Andreas M Neophytou; C Phoebe Lostroh; Richard J Telford; Blas M Benito; Joseph Chipperfield; Robert B O'Hara; Colin J Carlson

doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109288

Comment on "A global-scale ecological niche model to predict SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection rate", author Coro

Ecol Modell. 2020 Nov 15:436:109288. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109288. Epub 2020 Sep 21.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ University of Colorado Denver, Department of Integrative Biology, Science Building 2074, Denver, CO 80217, USA.
² Denver Botanic Gardens, Research and Conservation, 909 York Street, Denver, CO 80206, USA.
³ Colorado State University, Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA.
⁴ Colorado College Department of Molecular Biology, 14 E Cache La Poudre Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80903, USA.
⁵ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway.
⁶ Department of Ecology & Multidisciplinary Institute for Environmental Studies "Ramon Margalef", University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
⁷ Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Thormøhlensgate 55, 5006 Bergen, Norway.
⁸ Dept of Mathematical Sciences and Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics, Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
⁹ Center for Global Health Science and Security, Georgetown University Medical Center, 6 Georgetown University, DC 20007, USA.

Abstract

In this letter we present comments on the article "A global-scale ecological niche model to predict SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus" by Coro published in 2020.

Keywords: COVID-19; Data validation; Interdisciplinary research; Open science; Pandemic.