This is exactly what happened. Now the UW model has been readjusted to predict 134k deaths total. The new model still suffers from the same flaw: it assumes something will change in May/June to cause the epidemic's trajectory to suddenly change direction and get under control.https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1256297472407662593 …
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A better model would be presented as a set of possible actions taken by the fed govt / state govts / the public, and outcomes conditioned on these actions. This would involve actually modeling transmission and economic/social activity, rather than fitting a curve.
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And don't get me started on the "cubic model" from the WH (cubic fit in Excel?) predicting 0 deaths in two weeks
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These models never were about predicting future. These models are about imitating useful activity, and giving people something to chew, while they're trying to figure out wtf is going on themselves. Meaningless to even discuss, not to mention be mad about.
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