There's a prediction - "In the United States, if the total death toll increases at about the same rate, the current 67 deaths should translate into about 500 deaths at the end."
Note that the author wrote of New York "but only two deaths even after two weeks of exposure". There's currently 157 deaths.
Hence it's safe to conclude that the author's "analysis is all wrong", as mentioned at the end, disregard this article, and lend credence to the idea that perhaps it takes more than a couple weeks of contrarian study to become an epidemiologist.
> [WaPo]: Conservatives close to Trump and numerous administration officials have been circulating an article by Richard A. Epstein of the Hoover Institution, titled “Coronavirus Perspective,” that plays down the extent of the spread and the threat.
> [lawyersgunsmoneyblog]: Richard Epstein, one of the most important academic figures in the neo-reactionary legal movement that is busily destroying the contemporary American administrative and welfare state
FWIW, the death toll in the US, 10 hours later, is now 582.
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[ 0.17 ms ] story [ 12.6 ms ] threadThere's a prediction - "In the United States, if the total death toll increases at about the same rate, the current 67 deaths should translate into about 500 deaths at the end."
https://ncov2019.live/ says there's already 550 deaths in the US.
Note that the author wrote of New York "but only two deaths even after two weeks of exposure". There's currently 157 deaths.
Hence it's safe to conclude that the author's "analysis is all wrong", as mentioned at the end, disregard this article, and lend credence to the idea that perhaps it takes more than a couple weeks of contrarian study to become an epidemiologist.
I just came across https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/03/but-he-did-stay... providing commentary:
> [WaPo]: Conservatives close to Trump and numerous administration officials have been circulating an article by Richard A. Epstein of the Hoover Institution, titled “Coronavirus Perspective,” that plays down the extent of the spread and the threat.
> [lawyersgunsmoneyblog]: Richard Epstein, one of the most important academic figures in the neo-reactionary legal movement that is busily destroying the contemporary American administrative and welfare state
FWIW, the death toll in the US, 10 hours later, is now 582.