#Mitigation

Yossi Gestetner

Cuomo closed NY assuming that 1 million cases at Apex will lead to 130K in the hospital + 30K ICUs all at once. Actual ICUs were way less; Cuomo credits

Quick proof that a Hammer and Dance (suppression) strategy is strictly better than Herd Immunity (mitigation):1. Are you willing to collapse your healthcare system? If the answer is No, you

Dr. Fauci on Fox News tonight, on modeling: “I have always been and still am and will always be somewhat reserved and skeptical of models because models are only as

Yamiche Alcindor

Dr. Fauci starts by talking about his comments from this weekend. He says it is obvious that if mitigation and social distancing started earlier more lives would have been saved.

1/ What would falsify the hypothesis that comprehensive lockdowns are more potent by orders of magnitude than moderate mitigation measures? 2/ You would think that the following would be enough:

We present our pre-preprint results from our physical-location and demographics-specific model. We have simulated the COVID-19 outbreak in an entire German municipality. Early results show that schools are major hubs

People in the US are at a crossroads, now, and their votes will not only decide their President... it will change the course of their and human history.Vote Biden for

The @abcnews Managing Director David Anderson addresses the bushfires Senate Inquiry; “As the Government has acknowledged, the ABC’s actions during the bushfires last summer saved lives.” Live stream the hearing

ToTheRepublicApp.com

Easy Brit... it comes down to how many cases they thought we’d have vs how many we actually have...It’s only the difference between shutting down when we did (mitigation) vs

U.S. Surgeon General

Surgeon_General

A short #coronavirus thread:U.S. #COVID19 cases are rapidly rising, w/ 50% of all States in red or orange zone. Cases don’t tell the whole story, but we could also hit

THREAD: Why I am skeptical of the government response to COVID-19.(1) In most states, we have been locked down to combat COVID-19. Most of these lockdowns (not quarantines!) are justified

On CNN, Birx escalates rules for personal behavior:1) “If you’re in multi-generational households and there’s an outbreak in your [area], you need to really consider wearing a mask at home.”2)

JuliePi31415926

I had a thought just a bit ago. Some good-hearted climate activists are frustrated by those of us who haven’t given up on achieving meaningful reductions in GHG emissions. We

Osaretin Victor Asemota

The most prevalent model this period is "risk mitigation." The world shut down because of the adverse mass infection risk of a virus overwhelming healthcare systems. What we may have

Antonio Mezzacapo

@dabacon but also @nick_c_rubin thanks for engaging, I am enjoying the tweeting over multiple drinks. One argument you cite is the mitigation of systematic errors and using this method as

Anyone thinking about the intergenerational ethics of climate policy should check out @PatrickTBrown31's thread on his new paper with @KenCaldeira and economist/photographer @jmorenocruz.I'll add a few thoughts of my own