9/n Furthermore, only using the "residential" data*, as the authors did, is a big problem You see, most people already spend most of their time at home *there's also an issue with how opaque the term "residential" is and how this is calculated, but one issue at a timepic.twitter.com/AOwzpHozXC
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20/n It's also worth noting that the study literally does not address the question of whether government orders influenced COVID-19 deaths. Even if you ignore all the other issues, "residential" mobility data simply can't answer that question!
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21/n There are many reasons that people stay at home, and given the opacity of "residential" data it's hard to say much about the results other than that this is a hard question that we may never answer well
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22/n That being said, the idea that this study disproves staying at home as a driver of COVID-19 mortality is obviously wrong - at best, it is an example of how difficult answering that question can be
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