PolitiTweet Archive
Home Figures About
Donate
Profile Image

Nate Silver

@NateSilver538 ↗

  • Overview
  • Archive
  • Deleted
Deleted No
Hibernated Yes
Last Checked Oct. 14, 2020

Created

Wed Apr 29 21:35:27 +0000 2020

Likes

75

Retweets

4

Source

Twitter Web App

View Raw Data

JSON Data

View on Twitter

Likely Available
Profile Image

Nate Silver @NateSilver538

A month is enough time for that 2.5% of cases to spread 5-6 times over. If cases were turning over with an R of 1.3 (maybe what you'd get with relaxed social distancing) that gradually declines because of increasing herd immunity, you'd wind up with something roughly like this: — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 29, 2020 Hibernated

Preceded By

Profile Image

Nate Silver @NateSilver538

So... I think al their data is pretty compatible. First of all, one needs to be careful about comparing stocks (total number of people ever infected) and flows (number of people infected at any one time). So let's say the *flow* in Stockholm was 2.5% of people infected as of 4/1. — PolitiTweet.org

Justin Fox @foxjust

These projections that 30% of Stockholmers have already had the coronavirus are so strange. The government did rand… https://t.co/5vUfPN8Ut9

Posted April 29, 2020 Hibernated

Followed By

Profile Image

Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Generation 0: 2.5% newly infected Generation 1: 3.3% Generation 2: 3.7% Generation 3: 4.1% Generation 4: 4.3% Generation 5: 4.2% Generation 6: 3.9% Or something like that. Which would get you to 26% infected cumulatively. Actually higher, since some people had it before Gen 0. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 29, 2020 Hibernated

© 2026 Politiwatch. Tweets and other media belong to their indicated owners; all other materials are licensed CC-BY-SA. If you use PolitiTweet professionally, please feel free to let us know. Note that PolitiTweet stopped archiving new tweets on April 3, 2023, when Twitter disabled our API access.