The virus is so 'well-calibrated' that explaining such differences seems to involve any and all factors: age, culture, weather, stress, immune responses, luck... It's like an infinite series approximation where the first two terms are zero.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1258549915745087488 …
Maybe. But still the rate matters, because the later the spread, the better treatment we have, the less overwhelmed the hospitals are, etc. So what is the reason for the rate differentials?
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@CT_Bergstrom and@nataliexdean rate obliviously matters a great deal. I just meant that with nearly all of the world still susceptible, we may look back at early rate disparities as stochastic noise https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-herd-immunity.html … -
Yes stochastic noise is usually underrated as a factor; though that is somewhat dispiriting as a thought as we are fighting so hard in so many places. Possible.
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