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<blockquote data-quote="zubenelgenubi" data-source="post: 4658606" data-attributes="member: 63706"><p>Probably because the US is doing large general lock downs and not focused on isolating symptomatic cases as the WHO recommended in the article I was referencing.</p><p></p><p>From Donald Laskin's report on covid response statistics:</p><p></p><p>"TrendMacro, my analytics firm, tallied the cumulative number of reported cases of Covid-19 in each state and the District of Columbia as a percentage of population, based on data from state and local health departments aggregated by the Covid Tracking Project. We then compared that with the timing and intensity of the lockdown in each jurisdiction. That is measured not by the mandates put in place by government officials, but rather by observing what people in each jurisdiction actually did, along with their baseline behavior before the lockdowns. This is captured in highly detailed anonymized cellphone tracking data provided by Google and others and tabulated by the University of Maryland’s Transportation Institute into a “Social Distancing Index.”</p><p>Measuring from the start of the year to each state’s point of maximum lockdown—which range from April 5 to April 18—i<strong>t turns out that lockdowns correlated with a greater spread of the virus. States with longer, stricter lockdowns also had larger Covid outbreaks. The five places with the harshest lockdowns—the District of Columbia, New York, Michigan, New Jersey and Massachusetts—had the heaviest caseloads.</strong></p><p>It could be that strict lockdowns were imposed as a response to already severe outbreaks. But the surprising negative correlation, while statistically weak, persists even when excluding states with the heaviest caseloads. And it makes no difference if the analysis includes other potential explanatory factors such as population density, age, ethnicity, prevalence of nursing homes, general health or temperature. The only factor that seems to make a demonstrable difference is the intensity of mass-transit use."</p><p></p><p></p><p>I was commenting on the apparent connection between lock downs and increased severity of outbreaks back in August. Boy, I should be charging millions for all of my brilliant insights, but you get to enjoy them for free.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zubenelgenubi, post: 4658606, member: 63706"] Probably because the US is doing large general lock downs and not focused on isolating symptomatic cases as the WHO recommended in the article I was referencing. From Donald Laskin's report on covid response statistics: "TrendMacro, my analytics firm, tallied the cumulative number of reported cases of Covid-19 in each state and the District of Columbia as a percentage of population, based on data from state and local health departments aggregated by the Covid Tracking Project. We then compared that with the timing and intensity of the lockdown in each jurisdiction. That is measured not by the mandates put in place by government officials, but rather by observing what people in each jurisdiction actually did, along with their baseline behavior before the lockdowns. This is captured in highly detailed anonymized cellphone tracking data provided by Google and others and tabulated by the University of Maryland’s Transportation Institute into a “Social Distancing Index.” Measuring from the start of the year to each state’s point of maximum lockdown—which range from April 5 to April 18—i[B]t turns out that lockdowns correlated with a greater spread of the virus. States with longer, stricter lockdowns also had larger Covid outbreaks. The five places with the harshest lockdowns—the District of Columbia, New York, Michigan, New Jersey and Massachusetts—had the heaviest caseloads.[/B] It could be that strict lockdowns were imposed as a response to already severe outbreaks. But the surprising negative correlation, while statistically weak, persists even when excluding states with the heaviest caseloads. And it makes no difference if the analysis includes other potential explanatory factors such as population density, age, ethnicity, prevalence of nursing homes, general health or temperature. The only factor that seems to make a demonstrable difference is the intensity of mass-transit use." I was commenting on the apparent connection between lock downs and increased severity of outbreaks back in August. Boy, I should be charging millions for all of my brilliant insights, but you get to enjoy them for free. [/QUOTE]
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