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I had a similar thought. There are a couple complications, though. 1) a lot of people moved in with friends who still had power (e.g. if they were on the same
by rossdavidh 5y ago
I had a similar thought. There are a couple complications, though.
1) a lot of people moved in with friends who still had power (e.g. if they were on the same circuit as a hospital), so in some ways there was more mixing of households, in some ways less
2) the actual testing for covid-19 came to a virtual stop, so the data on cases was skewed
Having said that, one week after the snowpocalypse, there was no visible change in infection rates one way or the other, which does tend to suggest that human behavior was not having much impact.
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