Nate Cohn

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Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

IE: coronavirus cases don't just spread evenly throughout a country, they spread throughout communities, leading to metro-area type clusters. So what does it mean to compare Lombardy to the US, even on a per capita basis, when huge parts of the US remain largely unaffected? — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 2, 2020 Hibernated

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Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

Charts without any population adjustment obviously overstate the US. But per capita measurement is tougher than you'd think. Early growth is a function of N, not rates (IE: 1 infects 2, whether you live in 10k or 10million). Later, it's constrained by pop and slowed by geography — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 2, 2020 Hibernated

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Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

In many comparisons, we'd just learn how much of a geography is unaffected, and that's not what we're interested in. So it may be unusually useful to use the most direct comparisons we can: metro to metro, not just nation to nation but nations/regions of similar pop/densit/size — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 2, 2020 Hibernated