Nate Silver

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

When people are scared, as at the start of the pandemic, they may greatly limit contact. After that, the data suggests that it's hard to sustain better than a ~40% reduction and this value has actually been surprisingly consistent from state to state despite different rules. https://t.co/x1CNeIJumD — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 15, 2021

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

This is well done. Personally, I think one takeaway is it's hard to solve COVID through lockdowns alone. There's a limit on how much people are willing to limit social contact, many jobs can't be remote, some people live in crowded living quarters, etc. https://t.co/RCRtQePQYV — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 15, 2021

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

If COVID has an R of 2.5 if people don't change behavior at all, then reducing contracts by 40% gets you to 1.5 which is helpful but still produces fairly rapid exponential growth. So you need other interventions too. Masks help. Better testing and tracing might help a lot too. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 15, 2021