team_name: BIOCOMSC
model_name: Gompertz
model_abbr: BIOCOMSC-Gompertz
model_contributors:
  - name: Martí Català
    affiliation: Centre for Comparative Medicine and Bioimage (CMCiB) Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP), Barcelona, Spain
    email: mcatala@igtp.cat
  - name: Enric Álvarez
    affiliation: Department of Physics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
    email: enric.alvarez@upc.edu
  - name: Sergio Alonso
    affiliation: Department of Physics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
    email: s.alonso@upc.edu
  - name: Daniel López
    affiliation: Department of Physics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
    email: daniel.lopez-codina@upc.edu
  - name: Clara Prats
    affiliation: Department of Physics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
    email: clara.prats@upc.edu
    twitter: BIOCOMSC1
website_url: https://biocomsc.upc.edu/en/covid-19
license: cc-by-4.0
team_model_designation: primary
methods: Empirical model based on cases and deaths dynamics.
team_funding: European Commission, DG-CONNECT (CNECT/LUX/2020/LVP/0085, LC-01591965);
  Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Gobierno de España (PGC2018-095456-B-I00)
citation: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008431  https://europepmc.org/article/ppr/ppr492063