The full video of a recent symposium organized by the Young Academy of Europe on Covid-19 epidemiology is now online on YouTube, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy1qVBs6fHI
The talk by Prof. Dr. Ing. Marco Paggi, full professor at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca and co-founder of the spin-off TREE-TOWER S.R.L., is available at the minute 1:07:00 and it focuses on a machine learning approach to test epidemiological SIR models and assess the reliability of their forecasts.
A short article summarizing the methods is available here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.08207