Nate Silver

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Sorry, the original tweet I was linking to got deleted. But the same numbers appear in this tweet. https://t.co/4mV9U5jdrQ — PolitiTweet.org

In just the past week, American colleges and universities have recorded more than 36,000 additional coronavirus cas… https://t.co/VXkUNHM66Q

Posted Sept. 12, 2020 Hibernated

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

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

Posted Sept. 12, 2020 Hibernated

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Do you have better data on this, Carl, including on the number of students who are being tested? Because when I look around at university websites, the positive test rates are often pretty low and/or similar to the states where the college is based. — PolitiTweet.org

Nate is playing down the COVID situation on college campuses, but he's got the wrong denominator. Those 36,000 case… https://t.co/crAgnKG6In

Posted Sept. 12, 2020 Hibernated