Nate Silver

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

There are about 20M college students + 4 million staff, which works out to 7% of the US population. And 36,000 cases is about 14% of the ~250K US cases detected in the past week. So nominally, colleges are recording cases at ~2X the rate in the general population. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 12, 2020 Hibernated

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For context: I have no doubt conditions are conducive to COVID spread at many colleges. But this isn't necessarily all that high a number relative to college students' share of the US population and the likelihood they're getting tested more frequently. https://t.co/YXp48pPzFd — PolitiTweet.org

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But many colleges have extensive testing programs. Pick some random colleges, Google their COVID data...you'll find some with very low rates of positive tests, along with others with fairly high ones. Looks a lot like the US population overall (i.e. maybe ~5% positivity overall). — PolitiTweet.org

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