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Sun Jul 12 21:18:01 +0000 2020

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Plus, given how high current rates of infection are, plateaus are bad news. There were around 60K cases reported in Florida this week. And say we're catching around ~1/5 of infections. That means ~300K people per week getting infected in FL. Plateauing at 300K/week is not good! — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 12, 2020 Hibernated

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

There were quite a lot of tests reported today, particularly in Florida, and in some states, the positive test rate seems to be plateauing. But, so far optimism about plateaus has not "aged very well"; you'll think you've hit one, then you get some worse numbers the next day. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 12, 2020 Hibernated

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To some extent, this applies to all of society and not just college. People may say they think there needs to be social distancing. But they won't find it easy to maintain social distancing themselves, unless they perceive their own risk to be high. So it can't be our only tool. — PolitiTweet.org

Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo

I think the upshot of this is that college students are not going to practice social distancing, and the only way t… https://t.co/PdUdLoOc4E

Posted July 12, 2020 Hibernated

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