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Andy Slavitt:

artappraiser — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 02:10:58 +0000

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Andy Slavitt:

Update COVID April 9: The big conversation is around the 60,000 death toll model so I had confidential conversations with the modelers. Can share without attribution.

Also a palliative care doc walked me through a day with a COVID patient day.

1 more Senate call. Soon.1/
— Andy Slavitt @ (@ASlavitt) April 9, 2020

check his feed for the followup tweets.

Nate Silver:

artappraiser — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 02:00:38 +0000

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Nate Silver, click on to get entire thread:

I'm seeing people mean (at least) two different things when they use the phrase "flatten the curve" and they have different (somewhat opposite) implications for when the peak will be and whether it will come sooner or later.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) April 10, 2020

A serious conservative (as in

artappraiser — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 01:30:06 +0000

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A serious conservative (as in: not a pretend one) takes them on:

From me: How Irritated Should We Be with IHME Right Now? https://t.co/BtnOnVITK1
— Robert VerBruggen (@RAVerBruggen) April 10, 2020

One month ago today Trump

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 16:56:00 +0000

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One month ago today Trump told us he didn’t want to let people off a coronavirus-infected cruise ship because he didn’t want the number of US cases to go up. More than 10,800 Americans have died from Covid-19 since then. https://t.co/iBk7fSRBZu
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 7, 2020

Irrational exhuberance - what

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 11:43:39 +0000

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Irrational exhuberance - what lockdowns? You can't even get Americans to wear masks. Where's the supposed downturn in infections? People are just riffing off Trump's rah-rah over-in-a-week stuff. Viruses don't do exceptionalism.

Global markets largely extend

artappraiser — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 08:32:51 +0000

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Global markets largely extend gains after major indexes in the U.S. jumped more than 7% amid early signs that lockdowns could be helping stem the coronavirus pandemic https://t.co/y7OPNWOaEZ pic.twitter.com/EGs9sv5gKB
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) April 7, 2020

Said another way?

artappraiser — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 06:42:09 +0000

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Said another way?

Situation update. pic.twitter.com/oH05lRnh9l
— Linda Hubbard (@lindahubbardart) April 6, 2020

About IHME:

artappraiser — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 06:38:01 +0000

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About IHME:

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent population health research center at UW Medicine, part of the University of Washington, that provides rigorous and comparable measurement of the world's most important health problems and evaluates the strategies used to address them. IHME makes this information freely available so that policymakers have the evidence they need to make informed decisions about how to allocate resources to best improve population health [....]