Disease model forecasts make astrology look reliable:
In the final weeks of this summer, with Covid-19 cases soaring and the rituals of autumn about to resume, many people assumed that the pandemic was on the verge of getting even worse.
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The Washington Post cited an estimate that daily caseloads in the U.S. could reach 300,000 in August, higher than ever before. …. In The New York Times, an epidemiologist predicted that cases would rise in September because children were going back to school.
And what actually happened? Cases plunged.
Source: The Covid Fable – The New York Times
