Health Policy and data nerd at ATI Advisory. All opinions are my own.
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The game is rigged. Every single time there is a campus outbreak this fall and athletes, other students, and campus workers of all sorts get sick, the explanation will be individual moral failure to ‘act appropriately.’
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Per CovidExitStrategy.org
Every state completely below the Mason-Dixon Line with the exception of New Mexico has uncontrolled spread on 8/3/20
Every state west of the Mississippi except NM, MT, WY has uncontrolled spread
Here’s a quick and dirty peek at why the COVID death rate dropped despite high case counts.
While this decrease in death may be due to better case management, the virus’s shift from older people to younger less vulnerable populations is likely a stronger explanation. (1/10)
ALT After the peak in mid-April new case counts per day trends down, but deaths decreased more steeply.
Changing demographics may mean we need to reinvestigate our criteria for reopening. To keep infections low, perhaps case counts should trend downwards for ALL age groups and states should set a threshold of new cases that, if reached, should close parts of the state. (9/10)
However, even existing criteria from the White House show most states struggling. This data means little if governments fail to respond by reversing opening, expanding testing/contact tracing, and returning to social distancing policies. (10/10)
ALT View of US states. Most have "uncontrolled spread" or are "trending poorly" covidexitstrategy.org