Comment on “Predicting the mortality due to Covid-19 by the next month for Italy, Iran and South Korea; a simulation study

1 We have read with great interest the manuscript by Shojaei et al (1) who used statistical models to predict the mortality due to Covid-19 for Italy, Iran, and South Korea for the next month from 3/15/2020. It was claimed that the distribution of mortality was Poisson, so the corresponding methods were used to perform simulations (2). Now, the actual values of mortality have been released by the WHO for the prediction period, and the simulations showed an acceptable prediction; however, we would like to make some comments...