Coronavirus projections for Washington, D.C.: local govt vs. UW&
#39;s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (
@IHME_UW)
Peak in cases:
DC govt: End of June
IHME: Middle of April
Excess ICU beds needed:
DC govt: 2,705
IHME: 47
Excess ventilators needed
DC govt: 1,030
IHME: 0
Two points:
1) The Covid projections are all over the place. That&
#39;s because,
2) We&
#39;re still at a data-poor phase of the crisis, where we don&
#39;t know if our statistics are measuring an exponential reality or maxing out our ability to measure, in the first place