Nate Silver

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

So if forecasts were pretty good in March, what changed? Part of it is was just this was very new in March. People weren't thinking so far ahead. Fall seemed a LONG time away. You could read these predictions, agree with them intellectually, but they didn't register emotionally. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 19, 2020 Hibernated

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3. Prominent epidemiologists like Marc Lipsitch predicted in February that 40-70% of the world's population would be infected with COVID-19 over the next year. https://t.co/7W677X6GTC — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 19, 2020 Hibernated

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But also, we wound up in a middle ground where given the sort of interventions that society is willing to undertake, R seems to hover around 1. Achieving true suppression (R << 1) is too hard, apparently*. But it's not that hard to prevent R >> 1 with moderate interventions**. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 19, 2020 Hibernated