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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

3) Some factors are tending to produce improvement (mask-wearing, warmer weather, more testing) at the same time opening up may increase spread 4. On top of all that, the data is inherently fairly noisy and there are lots of debates about how to account for tests, etc — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 12, 2020 Hibernated

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Yeah there are like 4 confounding issues: 1) "Opening" is often incremental (many things were never closed and only some of the closed things are opening) but is portrayed in the media as absolute 2) People's actual behavior is only loosely tied to a state's official policies — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The coronavirus numbers in the US have taken a turn sharply for the better over the past week or two in a ways that… https://t.co/WQ3HLbtX9o

Posted May 12, 2020 Hibernated

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

My value-add is not my expertise on public policy but in helping to provide guidance on what messy real-time data looks like when debated under fraught political circumstances. I think people should be alert to the possibility of noisy, confusing, possibly misleading signals. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 12, 2020 Hibernated

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