The Coronavirus, not the beer

So isolation had zero effect on infection rate. Got it, that's good to know.

No...but as soon as three days ago when projections were off by tremendous amounts it shows you how bad they charted this virus.

Also, there were other states that showed decreases way before a shutdown could have impacted this.

There is absolutely zero chance a highly contagious virus was loose in NYC for 4 months and less than 2m people contracted it.

Just use basic logic and what you know of the boroughs. No chance.
 
an article from the Atlantic:

Coronavirus Models Aren't Supposed to Be Right

Every time the White House releases a COVID-19 model, we will be tempted to drown ourselves in endless discussions about the error bars, the clarity around the parameters, the wide range of outcomes, and the applicability of the underlying data. And the media might be tempted to cover those discussions, as this fits their horse-race, he-said-she-said scripts. Let’s not. We should instead look at the calamitous branches of our decision tree and chop them all off, and then chop them off again.

Sometimes, when we succeed in chopping off the end of the pessimistic tail, it looks like we overreacted. A near miss can make a model look false. But that’s not always what happened. It just means we won. And that’s why we model.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technol...avirus-models-arent-supposed-be-right/609271/
 
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Wow this decision... on a "narrow technical issue" SCOTUS says Wisconsin voters waiting for their Absentee ballots under the extended window will only have their votes counted if they go out to the polls during the pandemic. You'll never guess which 5 were in the 5-4 majority. Hint, the winning party was "the Republican National Committee."
 
The White House announced 100-240... which implies 170k.

That was what, 4 days ago?

That's where I'm confused. I dont think the data supports this conclusion at all

A lot can happen in 4 days. Every new day is new data. There appears (unjinx) to be some leveling out since then.

Either projection is consistent with the Imperial College model.
 
Any degree = you have been lobotomized.

Agreed that that is crazy but I suspect we will fall in the 30-50K range... which would be ~75% less than the models that were used to shut everything down.

I'm really interested in seeing the total deaths of flu, covid, and pnemonia this year.
 
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