squillesque

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   by squillesque 6y ago

   You can approximate one with the other; it used to be common when normals were harder to work with early computers. Eg, https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/05/18/normal-approximati...
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   by squillesque 6y ago

   But hospital admission cases depends on perceived hospital resources too... if people think going to the hospital is worse than staying at home, or impossible, that will distort conclusions also.
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   by squillesque 6y ago

   This story reaffirms my sense that the recent explanation du jour for scarcity, residential vs commercial supply chains, isn't quite right. This person set out to buy an order of 250 lb of flour and it still vanished before their eyes.
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   by squillesque 6y ago

   The concern I have is the endgame with shelter in place rules. I'm fairly convinced they're working (although not completely so), but what happens when they're lifted? What is the timeline for doing so, and under what conditi
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   by squillesque 6y ago

   I can't find the studies at the moment but there's at least one looking at previous pandemics that supports your suggestion. They found that economies that instituted weaker public health responses had bigger casualties from illne