Thursday, September 01, 2022

DEEP DIVE: The Covid "Fudge Factor" - by Maxim Lott

DEEP DIVE: The Covid "Fudge Factor" - by Maxim Lott
Warning: This newsletter will will hit sacred cows from ALL political tribes when needed.
  • This post starts by mapping Covid around the world. 
  • First, in a “naive” way, taking official data — and then in a smarter way, using “excess mortality”, which also allows us to estimate a “fudge factor” for every country’s Covid data.
  • Then I draw lessons from the maps — what they say about vaccines, travel bans, lockdowns, and future pandemic responses...

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