I am NOT trying to downplay this pandemic in any way. I'm concerned about both the health and the economic impacts. However this article made me question even more some of extreme measure currently being taken by our politicians.
Inaccurate Virus Models Are Panicking Officials Into Ill-Advised LockdownsA scan of statements made by media, state governors, local leaders, county judges, and more show many relying on the same source, an online mapping tool called
COVID Act Now. The website says it is “built to enable political leaders to quickly make decisions in their Coronavirus response informed by best available data and modeling.”
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Then I read this article:
ICU doctor: Coronavirus frightens me. It's severe, unpredictable and it has no cure.
We are anxious as well about how we will cope with the wave of critically ill COVID-19 patients we anticipate. According to
one model, the number of expected sick patients will exceed the number of hospital beds in Hawaii between April 20 and May 10. This would have disastrous consequences.
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Guess which model the doctor is referring to in his article? It's the Covid Act Now model.