Oops. It appears I forgot to publish this last night. And at least as of this particular ungodly hour, there’s nothing much new.
Pandemic
Fig. 1. The Johns Hopkins COVID-19 map shows that there have now been over one million cases, with something approaching a quarter of those in the U.S. Screenshot as of 9:10 pm.[1]
There were two new blog posts yesterday:
- The first, from that morning, was entitled, “The worst of times and the worst of humanity.
- The second, from last evening, is entitled, “When ‘good’ news might not be so good. This is in response to Philip Bump’s article,[2] and it turns out there are lots of questions about the White House models and projections[3] he described.[4]
Philip Bump, “Decoding the graphs that may have saved millions of American lives,” Washington Post, April 1, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/01/decoding-graphs-that-may-have-saved-millions-american-lives/
William Wan et al., “Experts and Trump’s advisers doubt White House’s 240,000 coronavirus deaths estimate,” Washington Post, April 2, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/02/experts-trumps-advisers-doubt-white-houses-240000-coronavirus-deaths-estimate/
- [1]Center for Systems Science and Engineering, “Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases,” April 1, 2020, Johns Hopkins University, https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html↩
- [2]Philip Bump, “Decoding the graphs that may have saved millions of American lives,” Washington Post, April 1, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/01/decoding-graphs-that-may-have-saved-millions-american-lives/↩
- [3]William Wan et al., “Experts and Trump’s advisers doubt White House’s 240,000 coronavirus deaths estimate,” Washington Post, April 2, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/02/experts-trumps-advisers-doubt-white-houses-240000-coronavirus-deaths-estimate/↩
- [4]Philip Bump, “Decoding the graphs that may have saved millions of American lives,” Washington Post, April 1, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/01/decoding-graphs-that-may-have-saved-millions-american-lives/↩