Pandemics represent one of the greatest dangers to humanity and modern societies. 

The World Health Organization (WHO) has done its best to adress this issue within its capacities. However, the recent pandemic has also shown just how great the gaps in knowledge and deep-rooted deficits in our health care systems still are in regards to pandemic related circumstances.

These deficits represent enormous challenges for administrators in politics and many other areas of life. Not only do they need to make decisions on reactional measures but also on preemptive measures based on prognoses. Prognoses which have not constituted grounds for sound decision-making in this manner up until this point.

Such measures in part impact individual freedoms (e.g. lockdown, mandatory vaccination), in turn gravely impacting basic rights of citizens as well as economic developments. That is why precise prognostic models are of utmost importance to implement measures accordingly.