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 [....]
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/y7OPNWOaEZpic.twitter.com/EGs9sv5gKB
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.
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
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.
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.
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by artappraiser on Tue, 04/07/2020 - 2:38am
Said another way?
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/07/2020 - 2:42am
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/07/2020 - 4:32am
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.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 04/07/2020 - 7:43am
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 04/07/2020 - 12:56pm
A serious conservative (as in: not a pretend one) takes them on:
by artappraiser on Thu, 04/09/2020 - 9:30pm
Nate Silver, click on to get entire thread:
by artappraiser on Thu, 04/09/2020 - 10:00pm
Andy Slavitt:
check his feed for the followup tweets.
by artappraiser on Thu, 04/09/2020 - 10:10pm