IHME COVID-19 deaths model was low by 3K yesterday, looks like down by 4K today by days end

[ProfessorGAC]

10. They Appear To Be...

...a think tank of sorts for public health compiling lots of health data, outcomes, treatments, and then construct models to both identify cost predictions for major health events (for industry) and predictive trends of treatments and outcomes.
On their website, their descriptions seem a lot like actuarial science, though not exclusively. But some of the models were described in a way I would explain a proportional hazard analysis, which can be used to predict safety & environmental event performance in industry.
I didn't go through that many of their publications though, so I'm broadly extrapolating.