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    1. Nate Silver‏Verified account @NateSilver538 17 Mar 2020

      Nate Silver Retweeted Matt Grossmann

      Yeah, even as someone who's sympathetic to the idea that there's a wide range of uncertainty in the long-term coronavirus outlook, the policy response seems pretty clear: shut everything down for (at least) a few weeks, then you can re-evaluate from there.https://twitter.com/MattGrossmann/status/1239954054274371589 …

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      Matt GrossmannVerified account @MattGrossmann
      John Ioannidis says we don’t have data to support current coronavirus response policies & supports the (previously British) case for doing little. Rarely is the equation between demands for better evidence & the default of not acting made so explicit https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/ …
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Mar 2020
      Replying to @NateSilver538 @accommodatingly

      It's really good to err on the side of caution in this.

      11:45 PM - 17 Mar 2020
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        2. Kevin Donnelly‏ @kpdonn 18 Mar 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @NateSilver538 @accommodatingly

          For the very immediate term(a few weeks), yes. Just to get a handle on what we’re up against and also to make sure everyone gets it into their head that this really is a big deal. Longer than that, a long-term shutdown until there is (hopefully) a vaccine is a very risky gamble.

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        3. Kevin Donnelly‏ @kpdonn 18 Mar 2020
          Replying to @kpdonn @HeerJeet and

          We’ve never tried locking down the world for a year+ before. We have no idea how much poverty, and thus deaths, it would cause. We don’t know how long the recession/depression will last after we stop. It’s not a cautious approach at all.

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        1. Thomopolis‏ @thomopolis 18 Mar 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @NateSilver538 @accommodatingly

          I want a double blind study with regions of five million each.

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