Why were infant children getting scurvy in 1910? Because pasteurization, which finally made cow's milk safe to drink, denatured vitamin C, and the children of the wealthy were weaned later than poor kids. The undiscovered cure was a little bit of cooked potato.
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And let me be clear that I'm not questioning these measures, or being all woo about what makes people sick. I just think there's some additional factor in the mix affecting where it spreads.
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By the way, this facet of the story (the X factor responsible for uneven spread, beyond just randomness) is potentially extremely good news for the world. If we can figure out what inhibits the contagion in some places, or disinhibits it in others, we will have a powerful weapon
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The other half of this is that even as scientists we are trained by problem sets to expect that there is a correct answer that explains the data. As ever the problem is not big data but messy data. Exponential growth with feedback looks more like Conway's Life than smooth curves
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So is that to say that because of regional variations in the flu (or something), certain regions have better resistance to Covid-19? Or is the theory that Covid-19 is already varying by region?
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