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Brommers
Peer review of Ferguson's code behind his model currently going on in Github is savage.
Turns out what was 'open sourced' isnt the original code but a heavily refactored version by Microsoft and Github removing Fortran sections (took some of the best coders in the world a month)
https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/issues/144#
But even after this work, its still buggy as fuck.
The official docs say the output isnt reliable.
They recommend you run it multiple times until you get the results you hoped for..
https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/issues/116
Team from Edinburgh uni showing how same entry can generate a different modeled outcome
