Read this tweet, then back up and read it again, then one more timehttps://twitter.com/rmc031/status/1353691734627246080 …
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Joshua Benton Retweeted Chudy Ilozue
Chudy is correct here. What the paper says is: — Having a nationwide eviction moratorium would've reduced Covid deaths by 40.7% versus having no moratoriums at all...https://twitter.com/Ilozue716/status/1353734947685752849 …
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— But of course some places *did* have eviction moratoriums, so moving those from "spotty" to "universal" would have reduced deaths by "only" 27.3%. So "only" 114,443 additional Americans alive than we have today.
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This isn't serious. There is no way to interpret that regression like this, and I don't know what the authors are thinking. I'm all for suspending evictions and utility disconnections, but extrapolating numbers like that don't help the argument. @rmc031
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If implemented as federal policy from early March through end of Nov. — "policies that limit evictions could have reduced Covid deaths by 40.7%. For utility disconnection moratoria, infections rates could have been reduced by 8.7% and deaths by 14.8%."