WHO has to call this thing a pandemic on Monday (though they might not because there are some financial implications) and, while I don't like to bet against mean reversion, people are going to freak out on Monday.https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/pandemic-bond-debate-inside-look-world-bank-coronavirus-relief-investment-2020-2-1028906657 …
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#Covid19 I think there’s one critical number: New infections per local hospital bed. There’s a threshold below which our medical system does not collapse. We need to stay below it. When we approach it, we need to quarantine until new infections subside.1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
After infections subside, the area will get reinfected and the cycle will repeat. Unless the virus mutates to become worse, each success peak will be lower because more and more people will be locally immune. I think this method is the best way to address limited health
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Care capacity but also people’s’ desires to not be cooped up in their homes for a year. Quarantine. Return to normalcy. Quarantine. Return to normalcy. Delay delay delay, until we have a vaccine. You can’t just “accept this risk”. Too many people will die becaus everyone will
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Hit the hospital system at the same time, reducing overall care for covid but also every other ailment in the hospital.
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Not so much a prediction as something I'd like to be true, but anyways:
#COVID19 will be America's second sputnik moment. We will be so embarrassed by our incompetence relative to China, that we will start reinvesting in science and industry once again!3 replies 1 retweet 7 likesShow this thread -
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@molson_hart Apologies for those who get to see this for nth time...had to throw it on my predictions thread.https://twitter.com/Molson_Hart/status/1237533313213972482 …Molson Hart added,
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You can believe that China has turned around a terrible situation, perhaps reaching a (temporary) steady-state, but the idea that China only had 33 cases on March 11th is comedy. Too many people going in and out. Too many in general. Social distancing works, but not perfectly.pic.twitter.com/amC14MubXP
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Something not discussed much about this pandemic: the lens through which many people consume news. Skepticism is high. Trust is low. Be it questioning a particular gov’t or media/source reporting numbers, reactions to the virus are affected by this lens.
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A lot of smart people show up in my timeline, but I haven’t seen any of them talking about this lens- except where
@Molson_Hart has commented about it indirectly. We can’t get through the pandemic successfully until we deal with the lens and reach basic agreement on validity.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
I think a lot about how much worse this pandemic would be without alternative sources of info like twitter! Dunno if you’ve seen already, but there are articles from 1918 that similarly seem to downplay the threat of the epidemic too.
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