MIT professor upbeat on virus outlook

As Greece enters the fourth phase of easing restrictions that were imposed in March to stem the spread of the new coronavirus, an eminent Greek professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Dimitris Bertsimas, has developed an epidemiological model that suggests Greece is unlikely to see a significant increase in Covid-19 cases over the summer. 

In an interview with Sunday's Kathimerini, Bertsimas, who is associate dean of business analytics at MIT in Boston, said that his so-called Delphi model, which he developed with a group of his students, uses data from some 10,000 patients worldwide and artificial intelligence to predict the evolution of the virus.

In Greece's case, there is unlikely to be a spike in the curve over summer, he said. "Things are going well," he said, adding that Greek authorities reacted correctly to the pandemic but he added that...