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Wed Mar 25 21:02:57 +0000 2020

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

I have a 🔥 take about how charts showing the cumulative number of coronavirus cases on a logarithmic scale are actually pretty easy to misinterpret. This is the quick half-assed version of it because I'm too lazy right now to make nice-looking graphs. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 25, 2020 Hibernated

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

This is key. The federal, state and local governments all need to be thinking about what the post-lockdown phase looks like and not just circling a date on the calendar and hoping for the best. — PolitiTweet.org

Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape

@WHO @DrTedros @Tokyo2020 @DrMikeRyan @mvankerkhove What he is saying, and WHO has said several times now is: Use t… https://t.co/g6KaIwenrp

Posted March 25, 2020 Hibernated

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Say you have two countries that each have cases growing at 30% per day. However, on Day 10 of the outbreak, country A undertakes an intervention where growth slows to 10% per day. This makes a huge difference, even after a few days—and you can see on a chart with a linear axis. https://t.co/EnJSMLNlX7 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 25, 2020 Hibernated

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